[R] Number of download.
Hi the list Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been download ? Christophe __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Number of download.
Hello On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Christophe Genolini cgeno...@u-paris10.fr wrote: Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been download ? Recently this page [1] was set up, but it doesn't seem updated for some time now. Liviu [1] http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/ __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Number of download.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote: Hi the list Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been download ? No, or at least not a comprehensive number. The question came up and was discussed in March last year. Search term popular.: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-March/thread.html The was considerable disagreement about the validity of any such number. This is Dirk's offering, which I assume is specific to Debian and appears to be the only data offered: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=r-base More generally, it was stated that the CRAN mirroring mechanism does not support data collection of this sort. (But it appears that the UCLA server may be an exception.) -- David Winsemius, MD Heritage Laboratories West Hartford, CT __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Number of download.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:23 PM, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote: Hi the list Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been download ? No, or at least not a comprehensive number. The question came up and was discussed in March last year. Search term popular.: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-March/thread.html The was considerable disagreement about the validity of any such number. This is Dirk's offering, which I assume is specific to Debian and appears to be the only data offered: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=r-base More generally, it was stated that the CRAN mirroring mechanism does not support data collection of this sort. (But it appears that the UCLA server may be an exception.) In a similar vein, has anyone ever put any 'phone home' code in a package, so that authors can track usage? Something in the package startup code that pings a logging server, for example? Yes I know doing such a thing without telling the user and giving them an opt-out is evil. Barry __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Number of download.
On 1/19/10, Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: In a similar vein, has anyone ever put any 'phone home' code in a package, so that authors can track usage? Something in the package startup code that pings a logging server, for example? Yes I know doing such a thing without telling the user and giving them an opt-out is evil. Why would this be evil? For R, for example? I've already read some objections to this on r-help, but I'm not sure I understand the reasons. As long as the 'ping' happens once, at first start, anonymously, and requires confirmation from the user, I do not see an issue with the behaviour. Regards Liviu __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Number of download.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: Why would this be evil? For R, for example? I've already read some objections to this on r-help, but I'm not sure I understand the reasons. As long as the 'ping' happens once, at first start, anonymously, and requires confirmation from the user, I do not see an issue with the behaviour. I did say 'without telling the user'. This kind of behaviour got its bad name from closed-source software 'phoning home' and raising privacy concerns since nobody could tell what the seemingly random stream of bytes heading off your computer consisted of. This kind of behaviour seems acceptible: library(foo) Foo library would like to report its usage to foo.com. Would you like it to do this every time you use it? No personal data about you or your computer is transmitted [y/N] Y Reporting use of library(foo) at 12:34:56 7-8-2010 to foo.com Then next time: library(foo) Reporting use of library(foo) at 12:34:56 7-8-2010 to foo.com To stop usage reporting, do foo.reporting(off) Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
