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

[Bob Muenchen]

  On 3/22/2011 5:15 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> 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
>

That would be nice! I'd love to have all the sources, which includes 
various company forums. Sounds like students could be kept busy for 
quite a few projects. If any pull it off, please send it my way!

Cheers,
Bob

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