I had too much time on my hands on a sunday morning: For the hell of it I grepped my r-help date headers for the last month or two. I was looking for some corresponding increase in r-help traffic.
The data is: http://brewiki.org/tmp/r-help_traffic.txt The traffic looks something like: http://brewiki.org/tmp/r-help_traffic.png I didn't take into account time zones for the plot (but I did plot the histogram of them). cheers Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Our main US mirror is cran.mirrors.pair.com, AKA cran.us.r-project.org. > Pair.com keeps statistics on traffic on the mirror sites, and I got > all excited when I looked at this page: > > http://mirrors.pair.com/pair/stats.html > > and saw that CRAN was 5th most popular over the last month, getting more > visitors than Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice, etc. Then I looked at this graph: > > http://mirrors.pair.com/freebsd/stats/cran-ip.png > > and saw that this is likely due to a huge spike in traffic between Nov > 16 and 20. Our "visitors" (not sure of the exact definition) went from > the usual <10K/day up to 50-150K/day during that week. > > Did we get mentioned somewhere (e.g. Slashdot), or was someone just > experimenting with some automated downloading? > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html