[Phylobase-devl] Fwd: download counters for bioconductor

[Hilmar Lapp]

Just FYI if anyone here happens to care about download counters.  
Apparently it's not quite as simple as it might seem as the  
Bioconductor folks who are often ahead of the curve rather than behind  
are just finishing such a thing for their packages.

Won't help R-forge, though, I suppose.

	-hilmar

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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:18:34 -0800
From: Patrick Aboyoun <paboyoun at fhcrc.org>
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Download numbers
To: Steffen Neumann <sneumann at ipb-halle.de>
Cc: bioc-devel <bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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Steffen,
The Seattle group with Herve Pages at the lead has been gathering
download information and polishing off a prototype for displaying the
results. Herve's gone through a few iterations to ensure we have the
right data and are presenting them in a reasonable manner. Once we are
confident we have something useful to the community, we will release it
into the wild. I would anticipate this happening sooner rather than  
later.


Patrick


Steffen Neumann wrote:
> Hi BioC-infrastructure-maintainers,
>
> recently someone asked me whether BioC has
> a download counter for the packages, which comes in
> very handy if you want to know your user base
> (and for writing grant applications).
>
> So I propose to add download counters
> for the binary and source tarballs
> on the package pages http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/html/package.html
>
> One'd have to discuss (or simply define :-)
> whether these are grant totals, or by-version,
> by-month, and/or by-architecture etc.
>
> Currently there are only few bioc mirrors,
> so I'd expect the numbers from bioc.org log files
> to be a) a lower bound and b) not too far off
> the actual download rates.
>
> Yours,
> Steffen
>
>



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:11:18 -0800
From: Herve Pages <hpages at fhcrc.org>
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Download numbers
To: Steffen Neumann <sneumann at ipb-halle.de>
Cc: bioc-devel <bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <4918F7D6.4000401 at fhcrc.org>
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Hi Steffen,

Yes, as Patrick said, this is almost ready. We wanted to make sure the  
stats
we have generated are correct before we disclose them (we had to  
troubleshoot
some issues with our Apache and Squid access logs for bioconductor.org  
first).

I'll make the stats public and announce here in the next days. Thanks  
for your
patience.

H.


Steffen Neumann wrote:
> Hi BioC-infrastructure-maintainers,
>
> recently someone asked me whether BioC has
> a download counter for the packages, which comes in
> very handy if you want to know your user base
> (and for writing grant applications).
>
> So I propose to add download counters
> for the binary and source tarballs
> on the package pages http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.3/bioc/html/package.html
>
> One'd have to discuss (or simply define :-)
> whether these are grant totals, or by-version,
> by-month, and/or by-architecture etc.
>
> Currently there are only few bioc mirrors,
> so I'd expect the numbers from bioc.org log files
> to be a) a lower bound and b) not too far off
> the actual download rates.
>
> Yours,
> Steffen
>



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