Bioconductor already provides download stats for all packages... http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/affy.html
-Christos > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Max Kuhn > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:25 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.