>-----Original Message----- >From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] >On Behalf Of Stefan Grosse >Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 10:25 AM >To: r-help@r-project.org >Subject: Re: [R] Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata... > >Am 20.06.2010 15:31, schrieb Muenchen, Robert A (Bob): > >> I've been fiddling around with various ways to estimate the popularity >> of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, JMP, Minitab, Statistica, Systat, BMDP, S- >PLUS, >> R-PLUS and Revolution R. It's not an easy task. You can see what I've >> come up with so far at http://r4stats.com/popularity . I'm sure people >> will have plenty of ideas on how to improve this, so please let me >know >> what you think. > >Your analysis is quite web-based. But to define what popular means is - >I believe - hard.
Stefan, I agree with all your points. What I have so far is nowhere near the big picture, but it's a start. When you install some software it asks if you mind it reporting usage stats back to its home site. I know that sort of thing has been discussed before on R-help. I'd love to see that added so we would have a better estimate of R's user base. Cheers, Bob >R is open source and very broad in its different >applications so of course it generates much more e-mail and web traffic >because there are many different uses and users. > >SPSS and Stata for example are closed and very specialized. You get >support also directly from the company and do not necessarily need a >mailing list. Does this mean that they are less popular? I'd say no. > >So the question I would raise here is whether it is a fair comparison? >I know that is a sufficient statistics-subset like panel econometrics >Stata is by far leading and for time series econometrics Eviews, Gauss >in research. I would say that in the industry that I know plus in >econometrics research those programs are much more widespread or >"popular". To measure their popularity I would say a >industry-and-education-wide-questionnaire should be used. > >Plus it is not sufficient so I would also name Matlab, Gauss, Ox, Eviews >from the areas of my "interest" (econometrics) as "popular" proprietary >software. > >I do not deny that R is becoming more popular, but I doubt whether >mailing lists and search requests are enough to prove this hypothesis. > >My 2cents >Stefan > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.
