[R] R-business case

[Spencer Graves]

      Some web sites have "hit counters".  It should be possible to get 
a counts of the numbers of times different parts of R are downloaded.  
Do the CRAN web sites include any such? 

      Best Wishes,   
      spencer graves

Jason Turner wrote:

> giovanni merola wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I am putting together a business case for R and I would like to know 
>> if there exist statistics on the distribution of R in academia, 
>> research and commercial institutions. The same information about 
>> S-plus would be welcome. Please reply only if you have consistent and 
>> certain information.
>>
>
> For the usual commercial reasons, getting hard data about commercial 
> use is difficult.  I've usually just listed the customers' needs 
> (compatibility? particular OS/platform as standard? extensibility? 
> support?), and compared the strengths and weaknesses of R vs. other apps.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
>
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