[Rd] CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 17:34:42 CET 2009
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Friedrich Leisch
<friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On ,
>>>>>> Anonymous () wrote:
> > Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
> > interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
> > to massage the data. I prefer to see the raw figure as is.
>
> > Also the number of IPs are important and should not be removed in my
> > opinion since (1) it is a measure of clustering. If a package is
> > mainly used by the courses of a few universities where the students
> > really have no choice then that seems a lot different than if its used
> > by a variety of people around the world. Only the IPs would give any
> > clue to that. (2) it helps to diagnose intentional distortion of the
> > figures by repeat downloads to the same machine.
>
> As Hadley already pointed out we cannot make CRAN logs publicly
> available for privacy reasons. That would be a violation of national
> laws.
I think that's unlikely. There is no info given out identifying
users. There are lots of web stats on the net.
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