I like the previous suggestion of counting the number of unique e-mails in the archive.
Another useful thing would be to count and plot the growth of number of R (and Bioconductor) packages over the years. I know not all packages are created equal. Regards, Adai. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch > Sent: 17 March 2004 14:03 > To: Spencer Graves > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; giovanni merola > Subject: Re: [R] R-business case > > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:41:38 -0800, Spencer Graves > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > Some web sites have "hit counters". It should be possible to get > >a counts of the numbers of times different parts of R are downloaded. > >Do the CRAN web sites include any such? > > The logs aren't currently available for general viewing, but I took a > look at what we do have, and it shows rw1081.exe (the Windows binary > build of R 1.8.1) being downloaded from the main CRAN site about 28000 > times. Not all of those downloads were successful; they average > around 10 Meg each, and the file is 22 Meg in size. On the other > hand, traffic to the mirrors isn't included at all. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
