Hi Weijun,

Mmmh... we never promised that the link to the download
stats for a given package was going to be a permanent URL.
The only permanent URLs we promised are the short URLs to the
package landing page which is

  https://bioconductor.org/packages/pathview

in the case of the pathview package. That's the URL to give to
people. The download stats are linked from there so when people
land there, they're 1 click away from the stats.

Anyway, I'll restore the old URL for pathview but it will show the
same content as the new URL, which is not exactly the same as the
old content.

Cheers,
H.

On 05/12/2016 05:27 PM, Luo Weijun wrote:
Hervé,
Thanks for the update, it looks great!
Here is one problem though. I noticed that the original download stats link has 
change too. For my pathview package, it was:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/pathview.html
now changed to:
https://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/pathview/
        
I happened to include the old link in a submitted grant application as an 
objective impact metric for the Pathview project. And now the old one is not 
used any more, and my application suddenly look bad now because the supportive 
evidence claimed does not even exist. Not sure how that may affect our grant 
application.
can we still keep the old URL or at least make it a alias to the new one? Thank 
you!
Weijun

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On Thu, 5/12/16, Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote:

  Subject: [Bioc-devel] new download stats
  To: "bioc-devel@r-project.org" <bioc-devel@r-project.org>
  Date: Thursday, May 12, 2016, 1:55 PM

  Hi,

  We've refactored the download stats a little:

     https://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/

  2 new visible features are (1) yearly stats since 2009 to
  present
  and (2) downloadable stats in tabulated format (.tab
  extension,
  import in R with 'read.table(<url>, header=TRUE)').

  Feedback welcome.

  Cheers,
  H.

  PS: Updated stats for annotation and experiment packages
  coming soon.

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