Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2000-Jun-20 08:21 UTC
[R] # of users of R, and biological examples of the use of R
Dear All, With a colleague we are writing a paper where we show how R is a very nice tool to deal with some issues in the analyses of data in evolutionary biology. For the intro, I wonder if 1) Anybody has any rough idea of how many people might be using R or how many people have downloaded R, or similar (I am aware answering this question might require divinatory powers...). 2) Have/are any of you using R in papers in the biological sciences (specially evolutionary biology, ecology, behavior)? Thanks, Ramon -- Ramón Díaz-Uriarte Dept. Zoology and Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706-1381 email: rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu (NOTE: starting 15-July-2000 new email: ramon-diaz at teleline.es) phone: 608-238-8041 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
A.J. Rossini
2000-Jun-20 16:31 UTC
[R] # of users of R, and biological examples of the use of R
>>>>> "RD" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu> writes:RD> 2) Have/are any of you using R in papers in the biological RD> sciences (specially evolutionary biology, ecology, behavior)? I'm working with a group of microbiologists for using it (for viral evolution). Papers won't be published for a bit, though, since it's only in the beginning... best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Biostatistics/Univ. of Washington (Th) Box 357232 206-543-1044 (3286=fax) Center for AIDS Research/HMC/UW (M/F) Box 359931 206-731-3647 (3693=fax) VTN/SCHARP/FHCRC (Tu/W) Box 358080 206-667-7025 (4812=fax) rossini@(biostat.washington.edu|u.washington.edu|scharp.org) http://www.biostat.washington.edu/~rossini -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Martin Maechler
2000-Jun-20 16:41 UTC
[R] # of users of R, and biological examples of the use of R
>>>>> "Ramon" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiazuri at students.wisc.edu> writes:Ramon> Dear All, With a colleague we are writing a paper where we show Ramon> how R is a very nice tool to deal with some issues in the Ramon> analyses of data in evolutionary biology. For the intro, I Ramon> wonder if Ramon> 1) Anybody has any rough idea of how many people might be using Ramon> R or how many people have downloaded R, or similar (I am aware Ramon> answering this question might require divinatory powers...). Without having such powers, I can report how the mailing lists look like : % cat r-announce r-help r-devel |sort|uniq|wc -l 911 (w/o sort|uniq it's 1140); r-help alone has 635 which indicates that 911 different e-mail addresses are subscribed to the R mailing lists (very few of these are mailing lists; however, also quite a few will be pointing to the same person) Now, the mailing lists probably contain almost no undergraduate students, and these *are* using R at least in many of the courses... Further, graduate students and scientific staff in many organizations use R, but only the more "aficionados" among them are subscribed to an R list. [factor of 3 ?] Other guesses? [Then what would "uses R" mean at all? o >= 1 hour per week ? o (one of) your major tool(s) for statistical data analysis? o ?? ] ---- {Now some musings, don't take me too seriously: I'm tired, it's hot, ....} At one moment in time I had dreamed of putting a "feature" into R which `registered' a user automatically when using R for the first time (by sending an e-mail to some "R counter" on the internet); but even if for a good purpose, it feels too much like "Big Brother" and "Virus/Worm"like behavior.. (and looks painful for me as MS-ignorant to work on a home Win-PC which only occasionally connects to the Net). Linux has (had) an optional Linux Users counter, via nice web interface; however I think it had never reached a state where it counted more than a tiny fraction of users.... Martin -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._