As usual, Google is your friend! Google on "growth of R software." The first 2 hits are relevant, and there are others further down.
-- Bert On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 9:05 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ 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.
