[R] R in the NY Times

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 7 January 2009 at 18:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> | By running the code below we see that the:
> | - sum of the three seems to be rising at a constant rate
> | - S is declining
> | - SAS and R are rising
> | - R is rising the fastest through its completed its phase
> | of highest growth which ended around 2004
>
> I wonder whether we need to account for traffic on all the additional r-sig-*
> mailing lists ?
>
> Of the handful that I follow, some seem to have taken traffic from r-help.
> This could account for (at least parts of) the apparent traffic growth
> slowdown since 2004 as many of these added lists appeared only in the last
> few years.
>

Good observation.  It would be interesting to combine the data from all
the lists to see what the effect is.