[Bioc-devel] Download stats for Feb/2011?

[cstrato]

Dear Dan,

Thank you for this information and for the update.

Best regards
Christian


On 2/23/11 6:10 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Luo Weijun <luo_weijun at yahoo.com
> <mailto:luo_weijun at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Christian and Martin,
>     The same download pattern also occurred to my gage package. Actually
>     it occurred to many non-core packages, i.e. those don't install
>     through biocLite(). For those core packages or highly used packages
>     already with thousands of downloads per month, this pattern is not
>     seen. For instance, the biomaRt package you have mentioned, its
>     February is similar to other normal months. Based on Martin's
>     description, very likely some other computer cluster with a few
>     hundred nodes is installing Bioconductor with all packages included.
>     These exta few hundred downloads mean a lot more for the non-core
>     packages, but little for core packages.
>     A related question I am interested now, is there any way to know the
>     total download stats, not only from FHCRC server, but also from the
>     mirrors. Martin said mirror stats are not counted currently.
>     Weijun
>
>
> Christian and Weijun,
>
> There were some internal housekeeping processes which were skewing the
> results. These have now been filtered out.
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
>
>
>     --- On Sat, 2/19/11, cstrato <cstrato at aon.at
>     <mailto:cstrato at aon.at>> wrote:
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>      > From: cstrato <cstrato at aon.at <mailto:cstrato at aon.at>>
>      > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Download stats for Feb/2011?
>      > To: "Martin Morgan" <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org <mailto:mtmorgan at fhcrc.org>>
>      > Cc: bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>     <mailto:bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>      > Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 12:56 PM
>      > Dear Martin,
>      >
>      > Thank you for your reply, you are right with the distinct
>      > IPs downloads.
>      > The high  downloads of different packages is still
>      > conspicuous (a
>      > statistical outlier) but I must agree that it is not so
>      > strange as the
>      > biomaRt outlier.
>      >
>      > Best regards
>      > Christian
>      >
>      >
>      > On 2/19/11 5:18 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
>      > > On 02/19/2011 07:44 AM, cstrato wrote:
>      > >> Dear all,
>      > >>
>      > >> Looking at the download stats of my package xps I
>      > was astonished to see
>      > >> that it was downloaded 692 times which is twice as
>      > high as usually, but
>      > >> by only 57 distinct IPs which is about twice as
>      > low as usually.
>      > >>
>      > >> Looking at the download stats for other packages I
>      > realized that the
>      > >> same strange pattern of download stats, very high
>      > overall downloads vs
>      > >> low downloads by distinct IPs is true for many
>      > other packages.
>      > >>
>      > >> Does someone have an explanation for this strange
>      > download pattern in
>      > >> February?
>      > >
>      > > Worth remembering that these stats are summaries of
>      > the server logs at
>      > > FHCRC; they exclude mirrors and can reflect whatever
>      > weirdness the
>      > > internet might concoct.
>      > >
>      > > February is only half done so I think that's the
>      > distinct IP answer; the
>      > > total downloads could be any of a number of reasons,
>      > for instance
>      > > biomaRt was very popular in September 2010, when what
>      > appears from their
>      > > IP address to be many nodes in a HPC cluster somewhere
>      > in the US midwest
>      > > decided that they needed to repeatedly install
>      > biomaRt.
>      > >
>      > > A more complete answer will take a little digging...
>      > >
>      > > Martin
>      > >
>      > >
>      > >>
>      > >> Best regards
>      > >> Christian
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