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[Bioc-devel] download stats

2 messages · Hilmar Lapp, Hervé Pagès

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Hilmar Lapp
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Hi,

the site looks great! Is the software that generates this available  
somewhere?

Coincidentally, I have been looking for this kind of thing on R-Forge  
at about the same time it came up here. I was told that the download  
stats facility on R-Forge has never worked and that that isn't going  
to change soon. I'm wondering what the prerequisites of your stats  
generating software are, and whether it could be made to work off of R- 
Forge with little or reasonable effort too.

	-hilmar
On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:00 AM, bioc-devel-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Hervé Pagès
    

    

      
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Hi Hilmar,

        
Hilmar Lapp wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I'm glad you like them, thanks! We wrote our own Python scripts for
this. There are 2 scripts: one for importing the Squid logs into an
SQLite database and the other one for generating the HTML report.
We have no plan to make them widely available but I can send them to
you if you want. That would be "as-is", with no doc, and no customer
support ;-) Some tweaking would be needed to adapt them to your site.

            

      
      
      
    

        
The only prerequisite is to have access to the Apache or Squid log
files. Writing the scripts for generating those stats is not a big
deal (each of our script is about 400 lines of Python). But R-Forge is
is powered by GForge so it's probably a little bit more work for the
GForge developpers to add a "download stats" feature to their
software than for us to write 2 small scripts for internal use (then
they need to document/maintain/support the new feature and to make it
configurable enough to work with many different site setups and to 
please everybody's taste...)

Cheers,
H.