Christos Hatzis wrote:
Bioconductor already provides download stats for all packages...
http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/affy.html
Maybe if we asked the Bioconductor people _really_ nicely
Jim
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Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
R-Forge already has this but I don't think its used much. R-Forge
does allow authors to opt out which seems sensible lest it deter
potential authors from submitting packages.
I think objective quality metrics are better than ratings, e.g. does package
have a vignette,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
R-Forge already has this but I don't think its used much. R-Forge
does allow authors to opt out which seems sensible lest it deter
potential authors from submitting packages.
I think objective
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
R-Forge already has this but I don't think its used much. R-Forge
does allow authors to opt out which seems sensible lest it deter
potential authors from submitting
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
On Tuesday 10 March 2009, Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
R-Forge already has this but I don't think its used much. R-Forge
does allow authors to opt out which seems
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.
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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
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--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com wrote:
From: Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com
Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages
To: Wacek Kusnierczyk
Given we are talking about statistical software, one bibliometric measure
of relative package popularity is scientific citations. Web of Science is
not too useful where the citation has been to a website or computer
package, but Google Scholar for lme4: Linear mixed-effects models using
S4
On 10-Mar-09 01:07:54, David Duffy wrote:
Given we are talking about statistical software, one bibliometric
measure of relative package popularity is scientific citations.
Web of Science is not too useful where the citation has been to a
website or computer package, but Google Scholar for
Hi all,
Put me in the camp that says more information is better than less
information - even if imperfect. Interpretation can be left to those
using the data.
Also, popular can mean many things. An alternative to number of
times a package is downloaded would be a ratings system, where R users
There was a discussion on this a while back in which Bill Venables
said: To me a much more urgent initiative [than rating responders on
R listserves] is some kind of user online review system for packages,
even something as simple as that used by Amazon.com has for customer
review of books. I
R-Forge already has this but I don't think its used much. R-Forge
does allow authors to opt out which seems sensible lest it deter
potential authors from submitting packages.
I think objective quality metrics are better than ratings, e.g. does package
have a vignette, has package had a release
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:04:24 -0500, David Winsemius wrote :
[ Snip ... ]
Nonetheless, I do think the relative numbers of package downloads might
be interpretable, or at the very least, the basis for discussions over
beer.
*Anything* might be the basis for discussions over beer (obvious
More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads can
be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for package
download have a very wide range from curiosity (what's this ?), fun
(think fortunes...), to vital need tthink lme4 if/when a consensus on
denominator DFs
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM, hadley wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote:
More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads can
be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for package
download have a very wide range from curiosity (what's this ?), fun
(think
On 08/03/2009 10:49 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads can
be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for package
download have a very wide range from curiosity (what's this ?), fun
(think fortunes...), to vital need tthink
I think the situation is worse than messy. If a client comes in with data
that doesn't address the question they're interested in, I think they are
better served to be told that, than to be given an answer that is not
actually valid. They should also be told how to design a study that
On 08-Mar-09 15:14:03, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 08/03/2009 10:49 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
More seriously : I don't think relative numbers of package downloads
can be interpreted in any reasonable way, because reasons for
package download have a very wide range from curiosity (what's
this ?),
Hi Ted,
Coming to think about your direction - another idea came to mind:
The next time a major release is made (there is one scheduled quite soon
actually), the core team could add a survey on the downloading page of the
R base package asking for just one question
please click here if this is
Is this another discussion of what data might be collected and
analyzed, and what could and could not be said if we only had such data?
Has anyone but me produced any actual data? If so, I missed it.
Hadly mentioned the 'fortunes' package. My earlier methodology,
On 08/03/2009 12:08 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
I think the situation is worse than messy. If a client comes in with data
that doesn't address the question they're interested in, I think they are
better served to be told that, than to be given an answer that is not
actually valid. They should
Dear Barry,
As far as I understand, you're telling us that having a bit of data
mining does not harm whatever the data. Your example of pop music charts
might support your point (although my ears disagree ...) but I think it
is bad policy to indulge in white-noise analysis without a well-reasoned
On 8 March 2009 at 13:27, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| But we don't even have that data, since CRAN is distributed across lots
| of mirrors.
On 8 March 2009 at 19:01, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
| As far as I can see (but I might be nearsighted), I see no model linking
| package download to package
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 8 March 2009 at 13:27, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| But we don't even have that data, since CRAN is distributed across lots
| of mirrors.
On 8 March 2009 at 19:01, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
| As far as I can see (but I might be nearsighted), I see no model linking
|
On 9/03/2009, at 4:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
... analyzing bad data will just give bad conclusions.
Fortune?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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Rolf Turner wrote:
On 9/03/2009, at 4:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
... analyzing bad data will just give bad conclusions.
Fortune?
looking for fortunes? got one for you:
A key reason that R is a good thing is because it is a language
who/where is left as an (easy) exercise.
vQ
On 9/03/2009, at 10:23 AM, John Fox wrote:
Dear Rolf,
Tukey put it nicely: The combination of some data and an aching
desire for
an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted
from a
given body of data. Inasmuch as there are no current fortunes from
Tukey, I
Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 13:22 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
On 8 March 2009 at 13:27, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| But we don't even have that data, since CRAN is distributed across lots
| of mirrors.
On 8 March 2009 at 19:01, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
| As far as I can see (but I
On 8 March 2009 at 23:45, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
| Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 13:22 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a crit :
| Once you have data, you have an option of using or discarding it. But if you
| have no data, you have no option. How is that better?
|
| I question 1) the usefulness
2009/3/8 Emmanuel Charpentier charp...@bacbuc.dyndns.org:
I question 1) the usefulness of the effort necessary to get the data ;
and 2) the very concept of data mining, which seems to be the rationale
for this proposed effort.
Furthermore (but this is seriously off-topic), I seriously
I question 1) the usefulness of the effort necessary to get the data ;
and 2) the very concept of data mining, which seems to be the rationale
for this proposed effort.
Furthermore (but this is seriously off-topic), I seriously despise the
very idea of popularity in scientific debates...
I would like to get some idea of which R-packages are popular, and what R is
used for in general. Are there any statistics available on which R packages
are downloaded often, or is there something like a package-survey? Something
similar to http://popcon.debian.org/ maybe? Any tips are welcome!
This function will show which other packages depend on a particular
package:
dep - function(pkg, AP = available.packages()) {
+pkg - paste(\\b, pkg, \\b, sep = )
+cat(Depends:, rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, Depends])], \n)
+cat(Suggests:, rownames(AP)[grep(pkg, AP[, Suggests])], \n)
+
When the question arises How many R-users there are?, the consensus
seems to be that there is no valid method to address the question. The
thread R-business case from 2004 can be found here:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-March/047606.html
I did not see any material revision to
I don't think At least one of the participants in the 2004 thread
suggested that it would be a good thing to track the numbers of
downloads by package. is reasonable because I download R packages for 2
home computers (laptop desktop) and 2 at work (1 Linux 1 Mac). There
must be many such
I agree with Thomas, over the years I have installed R on at least 5
computers.
BTW: does any one knows how the website statistics of r-project are
being analyzed?
Since I can't see any google analytics or other tracking code in the main
website, I am guessing someone might be running some
Quite so. It certainly is the case that Dirk Eddelbuettel suggested
would be very desirable and I think Dirk's track record speaks for
itself. I never said (and I am sure Dirk never intended) that one
could take the raw numbers as a basis for blandly asserting that
copies of ttt
I agree with Thomas, over the years I have installed R on at least 5
computers.
I don't see why per-marchine statistics would not be useful. When you
installed a package on five machines, you probably use it a lot, and it is
more important to you than packages that you only installed once.
i have kept r installed on more than ten computers during the past few
years, some of them running win + more than one linux distro, all of
them having r, most often installed from a separate download.
i know of many cases where students download r for the purpose of a
course in statistics --
I just did RSiteSearch(library(xxx)) with xxx = the names of 6
packages familiar to me, with the following numbers of hits:
hits package
169 lme4
165 nlme
6 fda
4 maps
2 FinTS
2 DierckxSpline
Software could be written to (1) extract the names of current
packages from
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Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages
To: Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no
Cc: r-help@r-project.org, Jeroen Ooms j.c.l.o...@uu.nl, Thomas Adams
thomas.ad...@noaa.gov
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5:22 PM
I just did RSiteSearch(library(xxx)) with xxx =
the names of 6
Hi all,
I'm kind of amazed at the answers suggested for the relatively simple
question, How many times has each R package been downloaded?. Some
have veered off in another direction, like working out how many packages
a package depends upon, or whether someone downloads more than one copy.
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