Hi Ian,
I've spoken with Stefan Theussl (cran maintainer) about this, and he's
concerned about the privacy implications of making the apache access
logs public. A compromise that he mentioned was having a script run
on the cran mirror that processed the log files and output summary
statistics.
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
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, hadley wickham h.wick...@gmail.com 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.
I agree. I was arguing
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.
I agree. I was arguing that sorting by that value wasn't very useful.
Also the number of IPs are
A few comments on your current site:
* Are you just including packages downloaded interactively from within R?
* I don't think the continent from which the package was download is
of much interest. There's definitely no need to include it on the
main page.
* I'd be far more interested
While I think download statistics are potentially interesting for
developers, done incorrectly it can very likely damage the community.
A basic data reporting problem, with all of the caveats attached.
This information has also been readily available from the main CRAN
mirror for years:
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
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hadley wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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.
Fritz and Stefan are concerned about
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Friedrich Leisch
friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
IP address plus time will always allow sysadmins to recover
identities. For static adresses or in combination with mail headers
etc it is also not exactly rocket science for others.
I had not
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Friedrich Leisch
friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Friedrich Leisch
friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
IP address plus time will always allow sysadmins to recover
identities. For static adresses
download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
Hi Ian,
I've spoken with Stefan Theussl (cran maintainer) about this, and he's
concerned about the privacy implications of making the apache access
logs public. A compromise that he mentioned was having a script run
on the cran mirror that processed
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Fellows, Ian ifell...@ucsd.edu wrote:
6. Regarding package dependancies, I was thinking about also counting the
number of top level downloads, as approximated
by the number of downloads where a reverse dependancy was not downloaded in
the next 5 min by the
Beyond what Gabor said, I might download a package that uses zoo, then
use zoo directly in other contexts without ever downloading it
directly. Total downloads would capture that; top level downloads
would not. The flip side is that a package that requires zoo may only
use it for features
Hi All,
It seems that the question of how may people use (or download) R, and it's
packages is one that comes up on a fairly regular basis in a variety of forums
(There was also recent thread on the subject on Stack Overflow). A couple of
students at UCLA (including myself), wanted to address
Hi!
Nice work!
But keep in mind, that for example the opensuse packages are no longer
kept up to date on CRAN, but in openSUSE's Build Service. So the stats
are biased towards windows and mac.
It seems you only count binary downloads of contributed packages?
Introduces some nice bias, too.
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