On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Friedrich Leisch <friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: >>>>>> On , >>>>>> Anonymous () wrote: > > Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of > > interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal > > to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is. > > > Also the number of IPs are important and should not be removed in my > > opinion since (1) it is a measure of clustering. If a package is > > mainly used by the courses of a few universities where the students > > really have no choice then that seems a lot different than if its used > > by a variety of people around the world. Only the IPs would give any > > clue to that. (2) it helps to diagnose intentional distortion of the > > figures by repeat downloads to the same machine. > > As Hadley already pointed out we cannot make CRAN logs publicly > available for privacy reasons. That would be a violation of national > laws.
I think that's unlikely. There is no info given out identifying users. There are lots of web stats on the net. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
