[R] R seven years ago

[(Ted Harding)]

On 08-Oct-08 18:00:27, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As some may know, today Google unveiled its 2001 search index [1]. I
> was curious to see how was R like at that time, and was not
> disappointed. Compared to today's main page [2], seven years ago the
> page looked [3] a bit rudimentary, especially the graphic. (It is wort
> noting that structurally the pages are very similar.) What definitely
> changed is the `Contributed packages' section. Then R featured 29
> contributed packages [4], while now it features 1500+ [5]. It was
> surprising to realize the growth of R during the past seven years.
> 
> Regards,
> Liviu
> 
> [1] http://www.google.com/search2001.html
> [2] http://www.r-project.org/
> [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20010722202756/www.r-project.org/
> [4]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20010525004023/cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/c
> ontrib/src/
> [5] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/

Many thanks for this, Liviu! One might also compare the mailing list
usage:

[R-help 1997]:   484 messages
[R-help 2001]:  4309 messages
[R-help 2007]: 26250
               1721+1909+2196+2145+2210+2309+
               2142+2246+2028+2711+2602+2031

So we now get more posts in a week than we did in the whole of 1997!

Best wishes,
Ted.

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