Subject: Re: [R] # of users of R
From: Thomas Lumley (thomas@biostat.washington.edu)
Date: Thu 22 Jun 2000 - 01:36:23 EST
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006210833480.11003-100000@atlas.biostat.washington.edu>
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 j.logsdon@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
> 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.
Also cases with fewer than 1 user, ie "Hmm. R looks like an interesting
package. Maybe I should install it in case I need to do some statistics
some time."
or
"We're a math department, we want all of the mathematical packages"
or even people who install everything.
Obviously that last group will be overrepresented in the Debian popularity
contest.
-thomas
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