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...Now you should probably read the R-help discussion thread from two years ago (URL above). Quite interesting. People's guesses wildly varied then from about 10'000 to 400'000 -- based on about the third of mailing list subscribers. The multiplication factor `f' in R_users = f * R-help_readers was conservatively estimated in the range of 10-20 (rather the latter). This would lead to a guess of about 50'000 users (with a wildly estimated [logarithmic] standard error of "factor 2"). I think most would agree that this would *not* count students who only use R during their...