Re: [R] # of users of R

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Subject: Re: [R] # of users of R
j.logsdon@lancaster.ac.uk
Date: Thu 22 Jun 2000 - 00:16:48 EST 

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006211505130.16298-100000@mercury.quantex>

Useful info from Dirk but this measures number of R Linux installations,
not users. If 100K is an approximate number of R Linux installations,
then the likely number of Linux R users could be somewhat more. In my
case, I have one installation and one user since only I use it but I am
sure that there are many cases with 2, 10, 100 etc users per installation.

In addition, as Dirk says, there will be a substantial number of non-Linux
users on other Unix platforms as well as Windows.

Anyone care to make a guess? I would estimate that there are 1/2 million
actual R users but this could be out by a sd */2 at least.

John

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

>
> Just another random datapoint: Debian has a little known package called
> popularity-contest. When this optional package is present, and if the survey
> participation is enabled, a list of installed packages is emailed out. [1]
> The aggregated results are on http://www.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/
>
> As of last night, it reported 735 participating hosts. Of these, 35 used R.
> (Select the 'math' section to fin the r-base package.)
>
> With a few brave assumptions, [2] we get a guestimate of 107,000 R users on
> Linux alone. [3]
>
> Dirk
>
>
> [1] This is as anonymous as it can be given the constraints. A random md5sum
> hash is used to distinguish between the participating hosts and mail-headers
> are dropped as soon as possible.
>
> [2] Let's assume that the ratio estimate is not biased and that Debian has
> 15% of the Linux installations which itself now stand at 15 million users.
>
> [3] Mind the ~/.signature taken from fortune(1). I did say brave assumptions.
>
> --
> According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
>

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