A quantitative study of the social dynamics of the R language.

First Analysis

Step 1: Download SVN logs:

Available at http://developer.r-project.org/

Step 2: Use a regex to parse SVN logs to count commits coming from each core committer:

julia parse.jl > committers.tsv

Step 3: Tabulate results by pooling across years:

Rscript tabulate.R

Step 4: Visualize results across years using ggplot2:

Rscript viz.R