This sounds like it would be really useful. Looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks,

-Robert


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 04/23/2013 10:39 AM, Martin Morgan wrote:
>
>> On 04/21/2013 10:45 PM, Steffen Neumann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 11:51 -0400, Robert M. Flight wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> The reason is alt-metrics. I thought it would be cool to have a little R
>>>> package that takes a supplied Bioconductor package name, and compares
>>>> its
>>>> download statistics to the download statistics for all the other
>>>> Bioconductor packages, essentially providing a percentile ranking.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ... and if you *then* use BioC Views to sub-categorize that,
>>> this would be very cool!
>>>
>>
> As a first step, we could make the count data available as a
> tabulated file, or an .rda file (with 2 serialized matrices in
> it). Would cover the last 5 years and have 1 row per month.
> Would be updated twice a week (like the HTML report itself) and
> available thru a permanent link. I don't expect the file would
> be too big, probably < 10Mb (it's just the counts, not all the
> hits). Then anybody could do whatever they want with it e.g.
> write a little R package that does stats on it.
>
>
>
>> These counts are currently total downloads, rather than from distinct
>> IPs, and are grossly inflated. They are based on scrapping web logs and
>> these sometimes have additional problems. The counts will be updated to
>> distinct IP downloads (available on individual package pages) in the
>> near future; maybe there will be some interruptions as that gets
>> implemented.
>>
>
> Just to clarify, both counts (total downloads, and distinct IPs) are
> already displayed. The proposal is to make the latter the primary count,
> in particular to generate the top-30 based on it.
>
> Also someone asked to use a log scale on the y-axis. This is done
> today:
>
>   http://bioconductor.org/**packages/stats/<http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/>
>
> (The crazy range on the y-axis will be corrected next time the stats are
> generated i.e. on Friday.)
>
> Cheers,
> H.
>
>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>> Yours,
>>> Steffen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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