On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Paul Artes <paul_h_ar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I'm contributing to a paper on a new R package for a clinical (medicine, > ophthalmology) audience, and part of the mission is to encourage people who > might be occasional users of Excel or SPSS, to become more familiar with R. > I'd really appreciate any pointers to more recent papers that describe R, > it's growth (statistics on user base, number of packages, volume of help > list traffic) and application in many diverse fields. Published > peer-reviewed papers of course would be best, but I'd appreciate any > pointers to other resources and compilations that might float around > somewhere. Is there anything bibliometric (number of citations)? I will > happily send something back to the list... > > Best wishes > > Paul >
Two possible starting points would be the Journal of Statistical Software or the R Journal. There's also this interesting paper -- http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0530 -- which doesn't touch R to the best of my memory, but explains why FOSS + Science is a good idea and sketches (one group's ideas of) best practices. Michael ______________________________________________ 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.
