This sounds like it would be really useful. Looking forward to seeing it. Thanks,
-Robert On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Hervé Pagès <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 04/23/2013 10:39 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: > >> On 04/21/2013 10:45 PM, Steffen Neumann wrote: >> >>> Hi Robert, >>> >>> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 11:51 -0400, Robert M. Flight wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>>> The reason is alt-metrics. I thought it would be cool to have a little R >>>> package that takes a supplied Bioconductor package name, and compares >>>> its >>>> download statistics to the download statistics for all the other >>>> Bioconductor packages, essentially providing a percentile ranking. >>>> >>> >>> ... and if you *then* use BioC Views to sub-categorize that, >>> this would be very cool! >>> >> > As a first step, we could make the count data available as a > tabulated file, or an .rda file (with 2 serialized matrices in > it). Would cover the last 5 years and have 1 row per month. > Would be updated twice a week (like the HTML report itself) and > available thru a permanent link. I don't expect the file would > be too big, probably < 10Mb (it's just the counts, not all the > hits). Then anybody could do whatever they want with it e.g. > write a little R package that does stats on it. > > > >> These counts are currently total downloads, rather than from distinct >> IPs, and are grossly inflated. They are based on scrapping web logs and >> these sometimes have additional problems. The counts will be updated to >> distinct IP downloads (available on individual package pages) in the >> near future; maybe there will be some interruptions as that gets >> implemented. >> > > Just to clarify, both counts (total downloads, and distinct IPs) are > already displayed. The proposal is to make the latter the primary count, > in particular to generate the top-30 based on it. > > Also someone asked to use a log scale on the y-axis. This is done > today: > > > http://bioconductor.org/**packages/stats/<http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/> > > (The crazy range on the y-axis will be corrected next time the stats are > generated i.e. on Friday.) > > Cheers, > H. > > >> Martin >> >> >>> Yours, >>> Steffen >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- > Hervé Pagès > > Program in Computational Biology > Division of Public Health Sciences > > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 > P.O. Box 19024 > Seattle, WA 98109-1024 > > E-mail: [email protected] > Phone: (206) 667-5791 > Fax: (206) 667-1319 > > > ______________________________**_________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/bioc-devel<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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