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RE: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated


From   "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
Date   Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:00:43 +0000

Thanks Stas. I've added that link. I like the sound of automation!  -Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov
>Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 10:18 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Re: st: Popularity of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, S-PLUS updated
>
>On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know what percent of the total of the main repositories are at
>SSC? To find equivalent info for R I chose only the biggest, CRAN, and ran a
>program to count the unique package names (2,849 on 3/25). I then selected all 9
>major repositories and ran it again (4,338). So while yearly total number of R
>packages is known only for CRAN, we can estimate that the growth curve shown
>in Figure 9 (http://r4stats.com/popularity) is 66% of the total. Individuals still
>have their own sets, but probably a relatively small number. I would *love* to
>have similar data for Stata!
>
>A more or less complete list of KNOWN online resources is given at
>http://stata.com/links/resources2.html. There are some isolated off-mainstream
>developers that have their code on the web pages without trying to integrate
>them into Stata search engine; they may even distribute them as zip archives
>rather than net-aware packages.
>
>Since this is all computer readable, the count of packages can be automated.
>Some will be double counted at SSC, at Stata Journal (SSC will likely have up to
>date packages), and at the author's webpages (like GLLAMM). I would expect SSC
>to take something comparable to the ratio CRAN/total R packages -- 60-70%, but
>I may be totally wrong.
>That again may not be a very good figure: the top 100 downloaded packages
>from SSC may represent 98% of the total downloaded packages from all sources.
>
>--
>Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this
>email account for mailing lists only.
>
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