[R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Tue Mar 22 22:15:55 CET 2011


> I don't doubt that R may be the "most popular" in terms of discussion group
> traffic, but you should be aware that the traffic for SAS comprises two
> separate lists that used to be mirrored, but are no longer linked
> Usenet --  news://comp.soft-sys.sas  (what you counted)
> listserve -- "SAS-L" http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html

R programming challenge: create a script that parses those html pages
to compute the total number of messages per week!  (Maybe I'll use
this in class)

Hadley

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
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