Pricing each download at 99 cents ( the same as a song from I Tunes) can
measure users more accurately.
Thats my 2 cents anyways.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Max Kuhn <mxkuhn@gmail.com> wrote:

> If is easy to get the download numbers, we should do it and deal with
> the interpretation issues. I'd like to know the numbers so I can
> understand which (of my) packages have the most usage.
>
> One other compication about # downloads: I suspect that a package
> being on teh depends/suggests/imports list of another package might be
> a big driver with respect to how many times that it was downloaded.
>
> If I remember correctly, about 5 years ago Bioconductor asked for
> volunteers to review packages to get detailed, specific feedback by
> people who use the package (and should be fairly R proficient). I
> think that this is pretty important and something like Crantastic is a
> good interface. I personally got a lot out of the comments the a JSS
> reviewer had for a package.
>
> --
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> Max
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