[R] R in the NY Times

[Carlos J. Gil Bellosta]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 10:42 -0600, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
> A really good measure for R will be the total # of the downloads of
> r-base for all platforms from all CRAN mirrors (and I would expect
> that # can be found from the servers' logs). 

Hello,

You obviate here that many of us are downloading R from our Linux
distribution repositories directly. 

Besides, given the free nature of R, some of us install it in several
computers, even, in my case, briefly in somebody else's computer for a
short time if I have an urgent task to solve. Of course, I would never
do (or be able to do) this with SAS...

So, the number of downloads from CRAN servers seems like a lousy proxy
for the total number of users of SAS.

Best regards,

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com