[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor stats

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi LLuis,

As Sean already said mirrors are not included in the stats. The
monthly nb of distinct IPs are reset every month and the yearly
nb of distinct IPs are reset every year.

Some packages are indeed in two categories. Category assignment is
based on the download URL only. For some mysterious reason the Apache
logs contain some lines that indicate that AnnotationDbi was downloaded
from an URL that points to a data experiment repository. These lines
are very rare though (1 or 2 per year) so overall don't have any
significant impact on the stats. Anyway that's something we'll need
to dig into at some point.

Cheers,
H.


On 06/27/2017 04:34 AM, Lluís Revilla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking at the stats of Bioconductor, and I would like to know
> more about how are they calculated.
>
> Do these stats account for the mirror sites? Are there any stats of the
> usage of mirrors?
>
> I found some packages that for the same month they have downloads in two
> categories. For instance AnnotationDbi has some downloads as experimental
> data package:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__bioconductor.org_packages_stats_data-2Dexperiment_AnnotationDbi_&d=DwIGaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=psknpX6b5M14sI3qf3U_bWP0s-rn_fEEnRsPoYrD2bw&s=Vn8nr1PNCdozt0465LZB9CXnGpPGdoEu_QskcQ6ehZA&e=  while
> most of the downloads are in the software category (The right one). It
> seems that near 500 packages have downloads in two categories.
>
> The "Nb of distinct IPs" if I understand correctly is for each package and
> month. So if the same IP downloads again the package is listed as a new IP,
> isn't it? I assume that if mirrors are counted either no one downloads the
> same packages from different mirrors in the same IP or that these
> information is shared across mirrors for these stats.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lluís
>
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