popular R packages

i have kept r installed on more than ten computers during the past few
years, some of them running win + more than one linux distro, all of
them having r, most often installed from a separate download.

i know of many cases where students download r for the purpose of a
course in statistics -- often an introductory course for students who
otherwise have little to do with stats. some of them do it more than
once during the semester, and many of them never use r again.

taking into account that basic statistics courses are taught to most
university students and that r is surely the most popular free
statistical computing environment, download-based usage estimates may be
a bit optimistic, unless 'usage' is taken to include 'learn-pass-forget'.

vQ

I agree with Thomas, over the years I have installed R on at least 5
computers.

BTW: does any one knows how the website statistics of r-project are
being analyzed?
Since I can't see any "google analytics" or other tracking code in the main
website, I am guessing someone might be running some log-file analyzer - but
I'd rather hear that then assume.






On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Thomas Adams <Thomas.Adams at noaa.gov> wrote:

  

I don't think "At least one of the participants in the 2004 thread
suggested that it would be a "good thing" to track the numbers of downloads
by package." is reasonable because I download R packages for 2 home
computers (laptop & desktop) and 2 at work (1 Linux & 1 Mac). There must be
many such cases?

Tom