[R] Size of R user base

[kjetil@entelnet.bo]

On 20 Apr 2004 at 10:47, Philippe Grosjean wrote:

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> Of course, this will only work with computers connected to the
> internet,... but at least, it could be one way to evaluate the number
> of R users. Would that be an infringment of Open Source, or any other
> rule of freedom? I don't know, but it does seem to be quite widespread
> (at least for commercial software). so, why an Open Source software
> would not be able to monitor the number of users?

That would make R into spyware, and there exist software to monitore 
and warn aganst/automatically remove spyware, and some users have 
such installed (and it will grow).

Kjetil Halvorsen

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