On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Luo Weijun <luo_weijun@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@aon.at> wrote:
>
> > From: cstrato <cstrato@aon.at>
> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Download stats for Feb/2011?
> > To: "Martin Morgan" <mtmorgan@fhcrc.org>
> > Cc: bioc-devel@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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