Oops, I misunderstood the database schema, and that only includes _questions_ tagged R, not the corresponding answers.
Hadley On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a similar plot for stackoverflow: > http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/150130/r-questions-and-answers-per-year#graph > > and one broken down by month > http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/150129/r-questions-and-answers-per-month#graph > > Hadley > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: >> On Nov 25, 2013, at 7:56 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I doubt if people start to search answers if they often do not search them >>> in help pages and documentation provided. >>> >>> I must agree with Duncan that if Stackoverflow was far more better than >>> this help list most people would seek advice there then here. Is there any >>> evidence in decreasing traffic here? >>> >>> Anyway, similar discussion went in 2003 with outcome that was not in favour >>> for separate beginner list >>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/03b/7944.html >>> >>> Petr >>> >>> BTW it is pitty that r help archive does not extend over year 2012. I found >>> that *Last message date: Tue 31 Jan 2012 - 12:19:21 GMT >> >> >> Petr, >> >> I may be confusing your final statement above, but the **main** R-Help >> archive is current to today: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/ >> >> That being said, as one who has been interacting on R-Help (and other R-* >> lists) for a dozen years or so, I would have to say that one would need to >> have their head in the sand to not be cognizant of the dramatic decline in >> the traffic on R-Help in recent years. Simply keeping subjective track of >> the declining daily traffic ought to be sufficient. >> >> Due to work related time constraints, my posting here in recent times has >> dropped notably. I do still read many of the R-Help posts and along with >> Martin, am co-moderator on R-Devel. So am still involved in that capacity. >> >> I do follow SO and SE via RSS feed, so am aware of the increasing traffic >> there, albeit, I have not posted there. >> >> In addition, there are a multitude of other online locations where R related >> posts have begun to accumulate. These include various LinkedIn groups, R >> related blogs, ResearchGate and others. I do believe, however, that SO is >> the dominant force in the shift of traffic. >> >> To answer Petr's question above, I updated and re-ran some code that I had >> used some years ago to estimate the traffic on various lists/fora: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/184196.html >> >> To that end, I am attaching a PDF file that contains a barplot of the annual >> R-Help traffic volume since 1997, through this month. The grey bars >> represent the actual annual traffic volumes of posts to R-Help. >> >> For 2013, I added a red segment to the bar, which shows the projected number >> of posts for the full year, albeit, it is simply based upon the mean number >> of posts per day, averaged over the YTD volume, projected over the remaining >> days in the year, without any seasonal adjustments. So it may be optimistic, >> as we are coming into the holiday season for many. >> >> Bottom line, while the trend was dramatically positive through 2010, peaking >> at a little over 41,000 total posts, the volume has just as dramatically >> declined in 2013 to a projected ~21,400. This means that the volume for 2013 >> has dropped back to the approximate volume of 2005. >> >> Only time will tell if the dramatic decline will continue, or reach some new >> reasonable asymptote that is simply reflective of the distribution of >> traffic on various other online resources. >> >> To the original query posted by Bert, I would say no, there is not a need >> for a beginner's list. >> >> Regards, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
