R help - Oct 2012 - peer-reviewed (or not) publications on R

Dear Friends,

I'm contributing to a paper on a new R package for a clinical (medicine,
ophthalmology) audience, and part of the mission is to encourage people who
might be occasional users of Excel or SPSS, to become more familiar with R.
I'd really appreciate any pointers to more recent papers that describe R,
it's growth (statistics on user base, number of packages, volume of help
list traffic) and application in many diverse fields. Published
peer-reviewed papers of course would be best, but I'd appreciate any
pointers to other resources and compilations that might float around
somewhere. Is there anything bibliometric (number of citations)?  I will
happily send something back to the list...

Best wishes

Paul




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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Paul Artes <paul_h_artes at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I'm contributing to a paper on a new R package for a clinical
(medicine,
> ophthalmology) audience, and part of the mission is to encourage people who
> might be occasional users of Excel or SPSS, to become more familiar with R.
> I'd really appreciate any pointers to more recent papers that describe
R,
> it's growth (statistics on user base, number of packages, volume of
help
> list traffic) and application in many diverse fields. Published
> peer-reviewed papers of course would be best, but I'd appreciate any
> pointers to other resources and compilations that might float around
> somewhere. Is there anything bibliometric (number of citations)?  I will
> happily send something back to the list...
>
> Best wishes
>
> Paul
>
Two possible starting points would be the Journal of Statistical
Software or the R Journal.

There's also this interesting paper -- http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0530
-- which doesn't touch R to the best of my memory, but explains why
FOSS + Science is a good idea and sketches (one group's ideas of) best
practices.

Michael