[R] R demos

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 6/24/05, Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am currently preparing some form of slideshow introducing R and its
> capabilities for some colleagues. The thing will be about 30 mins, and
> I'd like to have some "pretty pictures" and some "amazing facts" (I'm
> trying to sell, obviously :)).
> 
> Can I ask if it's possible to easily retrieve a gross figure of the
> number of functions in R considering the "base" install and all the
> libraries available?
> 
> Apart from graphics and lattice, are there any more packages producing
> eye catching graphics (possibly with a survival analysis/epidemiological
> bend)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Federico Calboli
> 
> --
> Federico C. F. Calboli
> Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
> Impe

Here are a few sources:

- links to R graphics demos:
   http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?GraphGallery

- R command giving number of CRAN packages (excludes BioC & other repositories):
   nrow(CRAN.packages())

- graph of r-help activity:
   http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general

- data for another measure of this:
   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-April/048385.html