popular R packages
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads can
be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for package
download have a very wide range from curiosity ("what's this ?"), fun
(think "fortunes"...), to vital need tthink lme4 if/when a consensus on
denominator DFs can be reached :-)...). What can you infer in good faith
from such a mess ?
So when we have messy data with measurement error, we should just give up? ?Doesn't sound very statistical! ;)
Also I would think that the rankings would be meaningful since the factors that cause the absolute numbers to be off would affect all packages equally.