[R] Longer synonym for R?

[Johanus Dagius]

Richard,
Many search engines, like Google, restrict matching to whole words. The word "R" does not occur nearly as frequently as the letter "R". 
In fact, if you perform a Google-search using "R" as a search parameter, the very first article returned is "The R Project for Statistical Computing"!
I can estimate the density of this "R" concept: The query "R" returned 137,000,000 articles. How many articles are stored in Google? I can estimate this by searching for the word 'the', which according to Zipf, should occur in roughly 1 out of 2 documents. The "the" query returns 2,860,000,000 articles. 
So, I estimate 5.72 giga-documents and the density of the word "R" (representing many concepts) is only 0.024 per document.
-jdagius
 
Richard Rowe wrote:
asking for r is a bit hard as (almost) every page will have lots of the 
them - r and statistics seems to work on the engines I use (I take my hats 
off to the designers of the indexers),




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