[R] popular R packages

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--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com> wrote:

> From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at prodsyse.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages
> To: "Wacek Kusnierczyk" <Waclaw.Marcin.Kusnierczyk at idi.ntnu.no>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org, "Jeroen Ooms" <j.c.l.ooms at uu.nl>, "Thomas Adams" <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov>
> Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5:22 PM
> I just did RSiteSearch("library(xxx)") with xxx =
> the names of 6 packages familiar to me, with the following
> numbers of hits: 
> 
> hits package
> 
> 169 lme4
> 165 nlme
>   6 fda
>   4 maps
>   2 FinTS
>   2 DierckxSpline
>     
>      Software could be written to (1) extract the names of
> current packages from CRAN then (2) perform queries similar
> to this on all such packages and summarize the results.  I
> don't have the time now to write code for this, but
> I've written similar code before for step (1);  it can
> be found in "scripts/TsayFiles.R" in the
> "FinTS" package on CRAN.  For step (2), Sundar
> Dorai-Raj wrote code that is is included in the preliminary
> "RSiteSearch" package available from R-Forge via
> install.'packages("RSiteSearch",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")'.
> 
>      Code to do this could probably be written (a) in a
> matter of seconds by many of those in the R Core team or (b)
> in a matter of hours by virtually any reader of this list
> using the examples I just cited.  And it could provide
> numbers without a need to convince others to keep download
> statistics and make them available later. 
>      Hope this helps.      Spencer Graves    
> Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
> > i have kept r installed on more than ten computers
> during the past few
> > years, some of them running win + more than one linux
> distro, all of
> > them having r, most often installed from a separate
> download.
> > 
> > i know of many cases where students download r for the
> purpose of a
> > course in statistics -- often an introductory course
> for students who
> > otherwise have little to do with stats. some of them
> do it more than
> > once during the semester, and many of them never use r
> again.
> > 
> > taking into account that basic statistics courses are
> taught to most
> > university students and that r is surely the most
> popular free
> > statistical computing environment, download-based
> usage estimates may be
> > a bit optimistic, unless 'usage' is taken to
> include 'learn-pass-forget'.
> > 
> > vQ
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Tal Galili wrote:
> >   
> >> I agree with Thomas, over the years I have
> installed R on at least 5
> >> computers.
> >> 
> >> BTW: does any one knows how the website statistics
> of r-project are
> >> being analyzed?
> >> Since I can't see any "google
> analytics" or other tracking code in the main
> >> website, I am guessing someone might be running
> some log-file analyzer - but
> >> I'd rather hear that then assume.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Thomas Adams
> <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:
> >> 
> >>       
> >>> I don't think "At least one of the
> participants in the 2004 thread
> >>> suggested that it would be a "good
> thing" to track the numbers of downloads
> >>> by package." is reasonable because I
> download R packages for 2 home
> >>> computers (laptop & desktop) and 2 at work
> (1 Linux & 1 Mac). There must be
> >>> many such cases…
> >>> 
> >>> Tom
> >>> 
> >>>       
> > 
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