[R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...

Mon Jun 28 15:43:05 CEST 2010

Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
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>> On Behalf Of Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
>> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 3:08 PM
>> To: Joris Meys; Dario Solari
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
>>
>> I had taken the opposite tack with Google Trends by subtracting
> keywords
>> like:
>> SAS -shoes -airlines -sonar...
>> but never got as good results as that beautiful "X code for" search.
>> When you see the end-of-semester panic bumps in traffic, you know
> you're
>> nailing it!
> 
> I have to eat those words already. The "R code for" search that showed a
> peak every December did not have quotes around it, so it was searching
> for those three words not the complete phrase. When you add the quotes,
> the peaks vanish. 
> 
> Once you go the phrase route, you gain precision but end up with zero
> counts on various phrases. I avoided that by combining them with "+" to
> get enough to plot. The resulting graph shows SAS dominant until
> mid-2006 when SPSS takes the top position, followed by R, SAS, Stata in
> order:
> 
> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20code%20for%22%2B%22r%20m
> anual%22%2B%22r%20tutorial%22%2B%22r%20graph%22%2C%22sas%20code%20for%22
> %2B%22sas%20manual%22%2B%22sas%20tutorial%22%2B%22sas%20graph%22%2C%22sp
> ss%20code%20for%22%2B%22spss%20manual%22%2B%22spss%20tutorial%22%2B%22sp
> ss%20graph%22%2C%22stata%20code%20for%22%2B%22stata%20manual%22%2B%22sta
> ta%20tutorial%22%2B%22stata%20graph%22%2C%22s-plus%20code%20for%22%2B%22
> s-plus%20manual%22%2Bs-plus%20tutorial%22%2B%22s-plus%20graph%22&cmpt=q
> 
> This might be a good one to add to http://r4stats.com/popularity 

It is also something that people considering a position with a CRO or 
Pharma might want to look at (at least for clinical trials). Looks to me 
like the outsourcing of stats jobs continues...

Best,

Jim

> 
> Bob
> 
>> I see that there's a car, the R Code Mustang, that adding "for" gets
> rid
>> of.
>>
>> Thanks for getting me back on a topic that I had given up on!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Joris Meys
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:56 PM
>>> To: Dario Solari
>>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata...
>>>
>>> Nice idea, but quite sensitive to search terms, if you compare your
>>> result on "... code" with "... code for":
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=r%20code%20for%2Csas%20code%2
> 0
>> f
>>> or%2Cspss%20code%20for&cmpt=q
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Dario Solari
> <dario.solari at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> First: excuse for my english
>>>>
>>>> My opinion: a useful font for measuring "popoularity" can be Google
>>>> Insights for Search - http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
>>>>
>>>> Every person using a software like R, SAS, SPSS needs first to learn
>>>> it. So probably he make a web-search for a manual, a tutorial, a
>>>> guide. One can measure the share of this kind of serach query.
>>>> This kind of results can be useful to determine trends of
>>>> "popularity".
>>>>
>>>> Example 1: "R tutorial/manual/guide", "SAS tutorial/manual/guide",
>>>> "SPSS tutorial/manual/guide"
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20tutorial%22%2B%22r%20m
> a
>> n
>>> ual%22%2B%22r%20guide%22%2B%22r%20vignette%22%2C%22spss%20tutorial%22%
> 2
>> B
>>> %22spss%20manual%22%2B%22spss%20guide%22%2C%22sas%20tutorial%22%2B%22s
> a
>> s
>>> %20manual%22%2B%22sas%20guide%22&cmpt=q
>>>> Example 2: "R software", "SAS software", "SPSS software"
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20software%22%2C%22spss%
> 2
>> 0
>>> software%22%2C%22sas%20software%22&cmpt=q
>>>> Example 3: "R code", "SAS code", "SPSS code"
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20code%22%2C%22spss%20co
> d
>> e
>>> %22%2C%22sas%20code%22&cmpt=q
>>>> Example 4: "R graph", "SAS graph", "SPSS graph"
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20graph%22%2C%22spss%20g
> r
>> a
>>> ph%22%2C%22sas%20graph%22&cmpt=q
>>>> Example 5: "R regression", "SAS regression", "SPSS regression"
>>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22r%20regression%22%2C%22sps
> s
>> %
>>> 20regression%22%2C%22sas%20regression%22&cmpt=q
>>>> Some example are cross-software (learning needs - Example1), other
>> can
>>>> be biased by the tarditional use of that software (in SPSS usually
>> you
>>>> don't manipulate graph, i think)
>>>>
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