Re: [R] # of users of R

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Subject: Re: [R] # of users of R
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org)
Date: Thu 22 Jun 2000 - 02:09:47 EST 

Message-ID: <20000621120947.A19104@eddelbuettel.com>

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:36:23AM -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 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.

Well, popularity-contest tries to be a little smarter and uses atime and
ctime as reported by find(1) to differentiate between 'used' and 'installed
but not used' as well as 'recently installed' software.

The full result for r-base is 35 'recently used', 49 'installed but not
used' and 8 'recently upgraded'.

However, your critic might still be valid here as upon installation, the
postinst script uses perl to adjust the R_PAPERSIZE based on paperconf(1).
This mightprobably triggers the atime upon package upgrade.

Dirk 

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