
You would probably need to talk to the people maintaining the mirrors as you would need access to the download statistics.

I presume that the IP addresses of the people who download are also stored somewhere, so you could possibly georeference the download statistics.

Flame  mode on

Then you could analyze everything with SAS and email the results to the SAS corporation to see if they appreciate the (not so subtle) irony. 

Flame mode off

Seriously though, I'd expect the download statistics to uncover a substantially higher use base than the figures you initially posted suggest. 

Christos

> Subject: RE: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:11:14 -0400
> From: muenchen@utk.edu
> To: argchris@hotmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
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> >On Behalf Of Christos Argyropoulos
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> >To: r-help@r-project.org
> >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
> >
> >
> >How about getting statistics of downloads of the R-base from the
> >different CRAN mirrors ?
> 
> I'd love to do that but there are lots of mirrors. Does anyone know of a
> way to automate such a search? Thanks, Bob
> 
> >
> >This should (in principle) allow one to estimate the total # of people
> >who intended to use R at some point in their life.
> >
> >It may even be possible to analyze those numbers for temporal trends
> >since the day of release of each R version is known.
> >
> >Christos
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