On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> As Hadley already pointed out we cannot make CRAN logs publicly >>> available for privacy reasons. That would be a violation of national >>> laws. >> >> I think that's unlikely. There is no info given out identifying >> users. There are lots of web stats on the net. > > Fritz and Stefan are concerned about making the raw logs available > online, not summarised web statistics. > > The concern is about IP addresses which can be used to identify > individual users. This may be commercially sensitive information - > for example, you could use this information to find out what packages > your competitors are using.
That's not a problem if CRAN itself creates the page. Alternately it would be easy enough to make the ip address anonymous by converting it to a factor and outputting the factor level numbers instead of the level names. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel