Hadley WickhamJul 21, 2023
If you're interested in the health of the #rstats community, a few stats for you: in the last week, RStudio was opened 3.5 million times (i.e. we logged that many checks for an update); in the last month, ~650k people visited a tidyverse website and ~65k people used posit.cloud; in the last year, >2 billion packages were downloaded.
Show threadJames WadeJul 22, 2023

@hadleywickham thank you for sharing these numbers. It’s nice to have data in what’s been an understandably quiet and uncertain time.

It’s a tough year all around. Layoffs everywhere affecting more than I’d thought they would. The #rstats community lost its town square. And ChatGPT brought AI into damn near every conversation.

I’m glad to see you posting more, and I’ll look forward to your substacks. Brighter days ahead.

Show threadJenny BryanJul 22, 2023
@jameshwade @hadleywickham this "loss of the town square" is a good way of putting it 😔
Show threadMara Averick 
@jennybryan @jameshwade @hadleywickham Agreed. The numbers are a strange sort of comfort (on an human level), like knowing there are lots of ships at sea, but not the VHF frequency to find them. (Apparently I'm feeling nautical *and* nostalgic this morning) ⛴️
Jul 22, 2023 at 12:39pmWeb