[R] R seven years ago

[Peter Dalgaard]

(Ted Harding) wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
Those not present at the useR in Dortmund might want to skim John Fox's talk

http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/slides/Fox.pdf

(Actually, he did something at the end to avoid ending on a negative
note. Flipped back to one of the increasing graphs, I suppose.)

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