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I figured the devel list would have people on it who might know the answer to this.... Is there a reliable (for some definition of reliable) estimate of how many people use R or have downloaded it? Say an order of magnitude estimate? I would like to mention this in the introduction to a paper I'm writing where I encourage R's use. Thanks for any help. -Andy

...much interest. One more source of data that might help is the voluntary data capture in Debian. If you are a Debian user, you should volunteer information. It's very easy: as root, say: # apt-get install popularity-contest The results are found at: http://popcon.debian.org/main/math/by_inst This shows that of the 4800 people who volunteered information, 1631 had installed gnuplot -- which suggests that perhaps one third of Debian installs are by numerate people. R-base was installed by roughly one-tenth of the sample. So that's one useful fact: Roughly one in ten of Debian users...