[Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for packages

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Wed Oct 30 19:45:04 CET 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luo Weijun" <luo_weijun at yahoo.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:08:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for packages
> 
> Dan,
> The numbers were either the same or just increased by 1-3 counts
> (almost the same). This increment in one week doesn’t make sense
> statistically for packages with hundreds of downloads per month. I
> have checked about 10 packages, not only mine. Anyway, the chance
> for all these packages get either none or just a few downloads in a
> whole week is almost 0. I tend to believe this is a global issue.
> I didn’t check the overall stats, but I did check the popular
> packages including this one with thousands of downloads:
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/VariantAnnotation.html
> The download seen today is 1916/30123. You may want to see how much
> is the change in then next update.

Today the numbers are 2301/30847 so I think things are working again.
Thanks,
Dan



> Weijun
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 10/29/13, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for packages
>  To: "Luo Weijun" <luo_weijun at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>  Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 1:56 PM
>  
>  Hi Weijun,
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > From: "Luo Weijun" <luo_weijun at yahoo.com>
>  > To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
>  > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:36:33 AM
>  > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Freezen download statistics for
>  packages
>  > 
>  > Hi all,
>  > It seems that the original message I sent did not get
>  through. Here
>  > is it again.
>  > I noticed that the download statistics did not change
>  at all in the
>  > past week. The numbers stay the same or almost so for
>  over one week.
>  
>  Are the numbers the same or almost the same? That's a big
>  difference. If they are not the same, it means there have
>  been downloads in the past week. If they are almost the
>  same, then things are probably working.
>  
>  Also, it is entirely possible that nobody downloaded a given
>  package in a given week.
>  
>  I took a look and it seems that all of our scripts are
>  running properly. If you want to archive the current page so
>  you can compare it to new results, feel free. You might also
>  want to look at http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/ which gives
>  stats for all packages; if none of those numbers change,
>  then there is almost certainly a problem.
>  
>  
>  Dan
>  
>  
>  > But the web page said it is updated yesterday, like
>  here
>  > http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/gage.html.
>  This occurred
>  > to all packages I’ve checked, not only the ones I
>  developed. There
>  > should be some problems there. Hope someone can check
>  on this?
>  > Thanks!
>  > Weijun
>  > 
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