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I guess this isn't so much of a help request as a show-and-tell from a non-statistician homebrewer who has been fumbling around with R. If nothing else it provides yet another data set. I hope it is not out of line. Anyway, the plots I have produced are at http://brewiki.org/BatchSparge#poll The polling method is somewhat simple, its just one of those multiple choice style polls you can create on various web forums. The poll was prompted by the ongoing claim from fly spargers that "their" method is more efficient, but I had never seen data to support...

Our main US mirror is cran.mirrors.pair.com, AKA cran.us.r-project.org. Pair.com keeps statistics on traffic on the mirror sites, and I got all excited when I looked at this page: http://mirrors.pair.com/pair/stats.html and saw that CRAN was 5th most popular over the last month, getting more visitors than Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice, etc. Then I looked at this graph:

...s the email list is active I fear a wiki > > won't be. > >That would be sad if that were true. They are different beasts, as >would be an IRC channel. I say complementary, not mutually exclusive. > >A wiki takes time to reach critical mass (eg my home brew wiki >http://brewiki.org/ or wikipedia) and you couldn't just pull the plug on >this list without a serious impact on the uptake of R I would have thought. > >Contributions to the wiki from mugs like me with less R/statistics >experience would hopefully make R more accessible to newbies - pointing >o...

I feel that as long as people continue to provide help on r-help wikis will not be successful. I think we need to move to a central wiki or discussion board and to move away from e-mail. People are extremely helpful but e-mail seems to be to always be memory-less and messages get too long without factorization of old text. R-help is now too active and too many new users are asking