Subject: Re: [R] # of users of R
From: Guido Masarotto (guido@sirio.stat.unipd.it)
Date: Wed 21 Jun 2000 - 18:12:29 EST
Message-ID: <20000621101229.A3065@sirio.stat.unipd.it>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:41:39PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> which indicates that 911 different e-mail addresses are subscribed to
> the R mailing lists (very few of these are mailing lists;
> however, also quite a few will be pointing to the same
> person)
>
> Now, the mailing lists probably contain almost no undergraduate students,
> and these *are* using R at least in many of the courses...
>
> Further, graduate students and scientific staff in many organizations use R,
> but only the more "aficionados" among them are subscribed to an R list.
> [factor of 3 ?]
>
> Other guesses?
My 0.01Euro.
I have checked one moment ago. From my department, there are
2 subscriptions to r-announce and 1 (me) to r-help and r-devel.
Thinking to the users, my estimate are
(a) staff and post-graduate students: about 20
(b) under-graduate students: about 300 (many of these (50 to 100?)
can be regarded as 'regular users', e.g., R installed on their
home computer and used not only for the courses for which
R is required).
Looking to the subscriptions from other Stats. department in Italy,
I suspect that our ratio between subscribers and users is one of
the highest.
guido
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