Dear R users,

There has been discussion on how to collect R usage statistics before and the discussion has led to some good results such as http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/ and http://crantastic.org/. Recently, I tried to put together a package that allows R users to rate, comment, and ask questions on R packages within R. A working version is now available on both github and r-forge. Note that the email feature may not work out as expected because gmail, used by the package, only allows 500 messages sent per day.

To install it from R forge, please use 
install.packages('rstats', repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")

Using github (require the package devtools), 
install_github('rstats','johnnyzhz')

A brief manual of it can be seen at: http://rstats.psychstat.org/rstats.pdf


I'd appreciate it that if you can test this and provide feedback on how to collect and utilize R usage statistics.

Best,
Zhiyong Zhang
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