From krcoombes at mdacc.tmc.edu  Thu Nov 19 19:47:47 2009
From: krcoombes at mdacc.tmc.edu (Kevin R. Coombes)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:47:47 -0600
Subject: [Rd] R Usage Statistics
Message-ID: <4B0592D3.5000200@mdacc.tmc.edu>

Hi,

I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an 
algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics:

"Finally, which useful for exploratory work and some prototyping, 
neither R nor S-Plus are appropriate environments for deploying user 
applications that would receive much use."

I can certainly respond by pointing out that CRAN contains more than 
2000 packages and Bioconductor contains more than 350. However, does 
anyone have statistics on how often R (and possibly some R packages) are 
downloaded, or on how many people actually use R?

Thanks,
    Kevin



[Rd] R Usage Statistics
Kevin R. Coombes