From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Mon Nov 23 17:34:42 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:34:42 -0500
Subject: [Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Friedrich Leisch
<friedrich.leisch at 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.



[Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
Gabor Grothendieck