Thank you both for your time and assistance. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> wrote:
> ** ** > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Travis Perry <travis.pe...@furman.edu> > wrote: > > Dr. Bates, > > Our department is considering replacing existing statistical > > software packages in our curriculum with R, at my request. To better > inform > > this decision we are interested to know the prevalence of R in the > published > > literature and its use across academic and research institutions. I > have so > > far been unable to find satisfactory information on the subject. Any > > information you could provide would be much appreciated. > > > > Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. > > > > best, > > > > -- > > Travis Perry > > Associate Professor of Biology > > Department of Biology > > Furman University > > 3300 Poinsett Highway > > Greenville, SC 29613 > > > > Senior Research Associate > > Rhodes University > > Grahamstown, South Africa > > Cell (864)-561-4240 > > > > Because R is an Open Source system which is freely distributed and may > be freely redistributed there is no way of keeping track of the > downloads and its use in academic and research institutions. > > Searching for "R statistics" at a book site such as amazon.com or > barnesandnoble.com should produce enough hits to convince your > colleagues of an active development community. > > On scholar.google.com the system itself has been cited 3782 times and > the initial paper on the system by Ihaka and Gentleman has been cited > over 6000 times. > > Others on the R-help list may be able to give more information > regarding the use of R in the biological sciences. > > -- Travis Perry Associate Professor of Biology Department of Biology Furman University 3300 Poinsett Highway Greenville, SC 29613 Senior Research Associate Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa Cell (864)-561-4240 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.