I"ve never looked to see if it differs among mirrors. I believe this is just an internal log file that is produced according to the default Apache (?) webserver configs on a Debian system -- I always assumed it was generated separately for different servers, but it could indeed be just a copy of the download stats for the central repository. I found about it when someone else pointed it out in some long-ago exchange on an R mailing list.
As far as I know it's essentially accidental that it exists and is accessible -- if the CRAN maintainers decided to move it or cut off access they could at any time. On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > > * download information _is_ available, unofficially, from some > > mirrors other than the RStudio mirror: see > > http://www.rpubs.com/bbolker/3750 > > You mean the report_cran.html file? According to my quick check it is > indeed available on some mirrors, but it also seems to be the same > file, so it is probably mirrored from cran.r-project.org. Why does it > show the (almost) last 56 days, btw.? How often is it updated? Can you > have daily values? Older data? In general, do you know any > documentation about this? > > G. > > [...] > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
