(Ted Harding) wrote: > On 08-Oct-08 18:00:27, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> As some may know, today Google unveiled its 2001 search index [1]. I >> was curious to see how was R like at that time, and was not >> disappointed. Compared to today's main page [2], seven years ago the >> page looked [3] a bit rudimentary, especially the graphic. (It is wort >> noting that structurally the pages are very similar.) What definitely >> changed is the `Contributed packages' section. Then R featured 29 >> contributed packages [4], while now it features 1500+ [5]. It was >> surprising to realize the growth of R during the past seven years. >> >> Regards, >> Liviu >> >> [1] http://www.google.com/search2001.html >> [2] http://www.r-project.org/ >> [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20010722202756/www.r-project.org/ >> [4] >> http://web.archive.org/web/20010525004023/cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/c >> ontrib/src/ >> [5] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/ >> > > Many thanks for this, Liviu! One might also compare the mailing list > usage: > > [R-help 1997]: 484 messages > [R-help 2001]: 4309 messages > [R-help 2007]: 26250 > 1721+1909+2196+2145+2210+2309+ > 2142+2246+2028+2711+2602+2031 > > So we now get more posts in a week than we did in the whole of 1997! > > Those not present at the useR in Dortmund might want to skim John Fox's talk
http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/useR-2008/slides/Fox.pdf (Actually, he did something at the end to avoid ending on a negative note. Flipped back to one of the increasing graphs, I suppose.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.