Pricing each download at 99 cents ( the same as a song from I Tunes) can measure users more accurately. Thats my 2 cents anyways.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Max Kuhn <mxk...@gmail.com> wrote: > If is easy to get the download numbers, we should do it and deal with > the interpretation issues. I'd like to know the numbers so I can > understand which (of my) packages have the most usage. > > One other compication about # downloads: I suspect that a package > being on teh depends/suggests/imports list of another package might be > a big driver with respect to how many times that it was downloaded. > > If I remember correctly, about 5 years ago Bioconductor asked for > volunteers to review packages to get detailed, specific feedback by > people who use the package (and should be fairly R proficient). I > think that this is pretty important and something like Crantastic is a > good interface. I personally got a lot out of the comments the a JSS > reviewer had for a package. > > -- > > Max > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
