[Bioc-devel] download stats

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Hilmar,

Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the site looks great! Is the software that generates this available 
> somewhere?

I'm glad you like them, thanks! We wrote our own Python scripts for
this. There are 2 scripts: one for importing the Squid logs into an
SQLite database and the other one for generating the HTML report.
We have no plan to make them widely available but I can send them to
you if you want. That would be "as-is", with no doc, and no customer
support ;-) Some tweaking would be needed to adapt them to your site.

> 
> Coincidentally, I have been looking for this kind of thing on R-Forge at 
> about the same time it came up here. I was told that the download stats 
> facility on R-Forge has never worked and that that isn't going to change 
> soon. I'm wondering what the prerequisites of your stats generating 
> software are, and whether it could be made to work off of R-Forge with 
> little or reasonable effort too.

The only prerequisite is to have access to the Apache or Squid log
files. Writing the scripts for generating those stats is not a big
deal (each of our script is about 400 lines of Python). But R-Forge is
is powered by GForge so it's probably a little bit more work for the
GForge developpers to add a "download stats" feature to their
software than for us to write 2 small scripts for internal use (then
they need to document/maintain/support the new feature and to make it
configurable enough to work with many different site setups and to 
please everybody's taste...)

Cheers,
H.


> 
>     -hilmar
> 
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:00 AM, bioc-devel-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:45:18 -0800
>> From: Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fhcrc.org>
>> Subject: [Bioc-devel] Download numbers
>> To: bioc-devel <bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>,    bioconductor
>>     <bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>> Message-ID: <492B58AE.2070508 at fhcrc.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Hi Bioconductors,
>>
>> Download numbers for Bioconductor Software packages are online at:
>>
>>   http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/
>>
>> There is no by-version or by-architecture stats yet but this could be
>> added if there is some interest for it.
>> The page will be automatically updated every monday.
>> Your feedback is welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> H.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Herv? Pag?s
>>
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> 

-- 
Hervé Pagès

Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
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