On 08-Oct-08 18:00:27, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As some may know, today Google unveiled its 2001 search index [1]. I > was curious to see how was R like at that time, and was not > disappointed. Compared to today's main page [2], seven years ago the > page looked [3] a bit rudimentary, especially the graphic. (It is wort > noting that structurally the pages are very similar.) What definitely > changed is the `Contributed packages' section. Then R featured 29 > contributed packages [4], while now it features 1500+ [5]. It was > surprising to realize the growth of R during the past seven years. > > Regards, > Liviu > > [1] http://www.google.com/search2001.html > [2] http://www.r-project.org/ > [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20010722202756/www.r-project.org/ > [4] > http://web.archive.org/web/20010525004023/cran.r-project.org/bin/macos/c > ontrib/src/ > [5] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/
Many thanks for this, Liviu! One might also compare the mailing list usage: [R-help 1997]: 484 messages [R-help 2001]: 4309 messages [R-help 2007]: 26250 1721+1909+2196+2145+2210+2309+ 2142+2246+2028+2711+2602+2031 So we now get more posts in a week than we did in the whole of 1997! Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Oct-08 Time: 19:34:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.