[Bioc-devel] Download numbers
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