Nice result but how likely is it that the 10% gain is (partly) due to @GaborCsardi mirroring all of CRAN on GitHub?
Ben Marwick @benmarwick
21 Jul 2015
#rstats is @IEEESpectrum's 'big mover', moving from 9th to 6th place from 2014-15 spectrum.ieee.org/computing/…

Jul 21, 2015 · 11:42 AM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel
@eddelbuettel also the @simplystats coursera courses require students to make R repos, which has a big impact on raw numbers
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@eddelbuettel If true, I would say likeli. @GaborCsardi
@JamesToll @eddelbuettel @GaborCsardi Seems likely, but should be easy to check if the increase is mostly due to increased GitHub activity.
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