R help - Mar 2011 - "Neutral" sources that attest to the success of the R project?

Hello everyone,

The "R (programming language)" article in Wikipedia was nominated as a
"Engineering and technology good article" but did *not* meet the good
article criteria at the time (2010).

The reviewer at the time made two interesting comments about the article:

   - Sources are almost all (except for one NYT article) online wiki-type
   sources. These may be self-published, and may not be reliable sources.


   - The subject is treated in a non-neutral way by the authors. Heroically
   positive statements are made without proper sourcing, e.g. "R [is] the
   de-facto standard language for statistical analysis".


*Can anyone suggest what academic-papers/news-articles have been made to
cover the R language community and impact in a "neutral" way?*
The only place that tries searching for such source, that I am currently
aware of, is Robert Muenchen page:
http://sites.google.com/site/r4statistics/popularity
Which cites several sources, all of which could be said to be not-reliable
sources (the R journal, mailing lists,...)

Thanks.
Tal

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