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

[Peter Dalgaard]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> 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?
> 

Kevin Farnham's article on O'Reilly might have something to do with it...

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/11/17/r_for_statistics.html

As the link suggests, it was published on the 17th.

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