If a package is not broadly using a dependency it can be listed under
Suggests: instead.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM, spencerg wrote:
> Beyond what Gabor said, I might download a package that uses "zoo", then use
> "zoo" directly in other contexts without ever downloading it directly.
> Tota
Beyond what Gabor said, I might download a package that uses "zoo", then
use "zoo" directly in other contexts without ever downloading it
directly. Total downloads would capture that; top level downloads
would not. The flip side is that a package that requires "zoo" may only
use it for featu
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popularity.
Ian
From: Gabor Grothendieck [ggrothendi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:15 PM
To: Fellows, Ian
Cc: hadley wickham; Stefan Theussl; R-devel
Subject: Re: [Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Fellows, Ian w
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Fellows, Ian wrote:
> 6. Regarding package dependancies, I was thinking about also counting the
> number of top level downloads, as approximated
> by the number of downloads where a reverse dependancy was not downloaded in
> the next 5 min by the same IP.
Top le
] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
Hi Ian,
I've spoken with Stefan Theussl (cran maintainer) about this, and he's
concerned about the privacy implications of making the apache access
logs public. A compromise that he mentioned was having a script run
on the cra
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Friedrich Leisch
wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Friedrich Leisch
> > wrote:
> >> IP address plus time will always allow sysadmins to recover
> >> identities. For static adresses or in combination with mail headers
> >> etc it is also not exac
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Friedrich Leisch
wrote:
> IP address plus time will always allow sysadmins to recover
> identities. For static adresses or in combination with mail headers
> etc it is also not exactly rocket science for others.
I had not suggested that identifying information be
>> 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
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hadley wickham 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
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Friedrich Leisch
wrote:
>> On ,
>> Anonymous () wrote:
> > Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
> > interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
> > to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure a
While I think download statistics are potentially interesting for
developers, done incorrectly it can very likely damage the community.
A basic data reporting problem, with all of the caveats attached.
This information has also been readily available from the main CRAN
mirror for years:
http://ww
> A few comments on your current site:
>
> * Are you just including packages downloaded interactively from within R?
>
> * I don't think the continent from which the package was download is
> of much interest. There's definitely no need to include it on the
> main page.
>
> * I'd be far more in
> Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
> interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
> to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is.
I agree. I was arguing that sorting by that value wasn't very useful.
> Also the number of IPs are
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
>> Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
>> interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
>> to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is.
>
> I agree. I was arguing that sorting b
Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is.
Also the number of IPs are important and should not be removed in my
opinion since (1) it is a measure of
Hi Ian,
I've spoken with Stefan Theussl (cran maintainer) about this, and he's
concerned about the privacy implications of making the apache access
logs public. A compromise that he mentioned was having a script run
on the cran mirror that processed the log files and output summary
statistics. T
Hi!
Nice work!
But keep in mind, that for example the opensuse packages are no longer
kept up to date on CRAN, but in openSUSE's Build Service. So the stats
are biased towards windows and mac.
It seems you only count binary downloads of contributed packages?
Introduces some nice bias, too.
Never
Hi All,
It seems that the question of how may people use (or download) R, and it's
packages is one that comes up on a fairly regular basis in a variety of forums
(There was also recent thread on the subject on Stack Overflow). A couple of
students at UCLA (including myself), wanted to address t
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