On 25.05.2015 02:29, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Uwe Ligges
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks for letting us know about the new website. Some comments:
- Download statistics: Where are they from? CRAN does not monitor
downloads generally, maybe some selected mirrors do.
It's the RStudio mirror only. It is mentioned on the Services page and
on the page of the download count API. It should probably be on the main
page, but 'Most downloaded from the RStudio mirror' sounded very clumsy,
even if it is correct..... Anyway, I'll put it there in some form in a
minute.
Btw. I do not think this statistics is the best:
- single mirror, although this is the least of my concerns to be honest.
- if a package is updated frequently, then it is downloaded more
frequently, even if it is not used by more people.
- if a popular package depends on another one, that is downloaded often,
too. Even if it is not used much directly. You would probably want to
rank down these packages a bit in the search result list. A good
example is my 'rversions' package, that is trending like crazy, but
nobody really wants it, only the last version of 'devtools' depends on it.
Ideally, I would want to count the number of 'install.packages()'
invocations, and this is actually technically easy without tracking
anyone. Is CRAN open to talk about this?
- Section "Recently updated" can only hold 9 packages, but
frequently more than 9 get accepted even within an hour, hence not
sure if this makes sense.
Click on "Recently updated", and you get the latest 100. You can get
even more with the API, if you want.
- The links "Download R" and "CRAN homepage" point to a particular
link of a mirror rather than the official pages. I'd appreciate if
you do not link to selected mirrors. The R homepage on purpose links
to http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html when pointing to CRAN.
Good points, I'll fix these. I put in that mirror, because it was fast,
and it is bound to be fast from anywhere in the world, whereas the main
site was sluggish from my location at that time.
OK, thanks!
Uwe
Thanks!
Gabor
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 24.05.2015 11 <tel:24.05.2015%2011>:44, Rainer M Krug wrote:
Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
Dear All,
[ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new
mailing list. Maybe. ]
As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am
building a simple
search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a
proper web site,
where you can also browse CRAN packages.
http://www.r-pkg.org/
As I see the value is in
1. package search (search box on top right)
2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services
It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work,
some pages are a
bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix.
I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly
think the
github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full!
It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for
diff-ing?
Thanks a lot,
Rainer
Please tell me what you think.
Best,
Gabor
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