Hi Weijun,

On 10/29/2013 01:08 PM, Luo Weijun wrote:
Dan,
The numbers were either the same or just increased by 1-3 counts (almost the 
same). This increment in one week doesn’t make sense statistically for packages 
with hundreds of downloads per month. I have checked about 10 packages, not 
only mine. Anyway, the chance for all these packages get either none or just a 
few downloads in a whole week is almost 0.

Assuming downloads follow a Poisson model but they probably don't.
We just had a release (exactly 2 weeks ago). Hard to know what
the impact of the release on the day-to-day progression of the
downloads could be but it certainly has one. I've been watching
closely this day-to-day progression in October. During the first
3 weeks the stats were sky-rocking to a point that, if the trend had
confirmed, at the end of the month we would have ended up with more
than 30k distinct IPs for all the software packages together. Now a
few days ago, this trend suddenly changed and now the progressiuon
is very sluggish, much slower than for normal months. It looks like
in the end, October will still be a very good month but not a crazy
one like the initial trend seemed to indicate ;-)

I agree all this sounds weird. Needs more investigation...

H.


I tend to believe this is a global issue.
I didn’t check the overall stats, but I did check the popular packages 
including this one with thousands of downloads:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/VariantAnnotation.html
The download seen today is 1916/30123. You may want to see how much is the 
change in then next update.
Weijun

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On Tue, 10/29/13, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fhcrc.org> wrote:

  Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for packages

  Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org
  Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 1:56 PM

  Hi Weijun,

  ----- Original Message -----

  > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org
  > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:36:33 AM
  > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for
  packages
  >
  > Hi all,
  > It seems that the original message I sent did not get
  through. Here
  > is it again.
  > I noticed that the download statistics did not change
  at all in the
  > past week. The numbers stay the same or almost so for
  over one week.

  Are the numbers the same or almost the same? That's a big
  difference. If they are not the same, it means there have
  been downloads in the past week. If they are almost the
  same, then things are probably working.

  Also, it is entirely possible that nobody downloaded a given
  package in a given week.

  I took a look and it seems that all of our scripts are
  running properly. If you want to archive the current page so
  you can compare it to new results, feel free. You might also
  want to look at http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/ which gives
  stats for all packages; if none of those numbers change,
  then there is almost certainly a problem.


  Dan


  > But the web page said it is updated yesterday, like
  here
  > http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/gage.html.
  This occurred
  > to all packages I’ve checked, not only the ones I
  developed. There
  > should be some problems there. Hope someone can check
  on this?
  > Thanks!
  > Weijun
  >
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