[R] What made us so popular Nov 16-20?

[paul sorenson]

I had too much time on my hands on a sunday morning:

For the hell of it I grepped my r-help date headers for the last month 
or two.  I was looking for some corresponding increase in r-help traffic.

The data is:
	http://brewiki.org/tmp/r-help_traffic.txt

The traffic looks something like:
	http://brewiki.org/tmp/r-help_traffic.png

I didn't take into account time zones for the plot (but I did plot the 
histogram of them).

cheers


Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Our main US mirror is cran.mirrors.pair.com, AKA cran.us.r-project.org. 
>   Pair.com keeps statistics on traffic on the mirror sites, and I got 
> all excited when I looked at this page:
> 
> http://mirrors.pair.com/pair/stats.html
> 
> and saw that CRAN was 5th most popular over the last month, getting more 
> visitors than Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice, etc.  Then I looked at this graph:
> 
> http://mirrors.pair.com/freebsd/stats/cran-ip.png
> 
> and saw that this is likely due to a huge spike in traffic between Nov 
> 16 and 20.  Our "visitors" (not sure of the exact definition) went from 
> the usual  <10K/day up to 50-150K/day during that week.
> 
> Did we get mentioned somewhere (e.g. Slashdot), or was someone just 
> experimenting with some automated downloading?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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