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[Bioc-devel] BioC2007, August 6-7 ** early registration ends July 1 **

5 messages · Martin Morgan, Richard Pearson, Robert Gentleman

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Martin Morgan
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BioC2007: Where Software and Biology Connect
August 6-7 in Seattle, WA, USA

** Early registration ends July 1 **

This conference highlights developments in and beyond Bioconductor. A
major goal is to discuss the use and design of software for analyzing
high throughput biological data.

Format: 
  * Scientific talks on both days from 8:30-12:00 
  * Expanded hands-on lab sessions on both afternoons 1:00-5:30
  * Technology overviews and social hour in the evening

Get more information and register for the conference at

https://secure.bioconductor.org/BioC2007/

A developer focused meeting is on August 5th. For (preliminary)
details, please visit:

http://wiki.fhcrc.org/bioc/Seattle_Dev_Meeting_2007

See you in August!

Martin Morgan
Richard Pearson
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Hi,

Is there any way of accessing download statistics for Bioconductor 
packages? If not, would it be possible to make such statistics available?

Thanks

Richard.
Robert Gentleman
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Hi,
   There is some data here:

http://cobrastats.fhcrc.org/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=bioconductor.org

   Doing something more, on a per package basis for example, would 
require some more work and before embarking on that, we would like to be 
confident that our developers and users would find such data useful. 
Some suggestions on what would be helpful, would be of particular use.

  best wishes
    Robert
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Hi Robert

Thanks for the link - very useful!

I think developers would like to know:
1. How many times their package(s) has(have) been downloaded, ideally 
broken down by:
    a. Total downloads/number of unique visitors
    b. Source/windows binary/OSX binary
    c. R download (e.g. using biocLite)/direct download from web page
    d. month/year/lifetime
    e. version number
2. How many times each of their package vignettes has been downloaded
3. How many times the package page 
(http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/html/<package_name>.html has 
been viewed

I think users would probably like this same information, but for all 
packages as a ranked list, and probably also for subsets of packages as 
defined by the Bioconductor Subviews.

Having had a look at the url you posted, I think most of this 
information is already available, if a little difficult to find, from 
the "Pages-URL" section. What I'm not quite sure about is whether this 
would include packages downloaded from R (e.g. using biocLite, 
install.packages, etc.) - maybe someone could clarify this?

As a first step, I would suggest listing on each package page the number 
of unique visitor downloads for the last month and last year of each of 
the following:
1. 
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/src/contrib/<package_name>_x.y.z.tar.gz
2. 
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/bin/windows/contrib/2.5/<package_name>_x.y.z.zip
3. 
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/bin/macosx/universal/contrib/2.5/<package_name>_x.y.z.tgz
I think www.bioconductor.org might get counted separately from 
bioconductor.org, so I'd suggest just adding the two numbers for each of 
the above.

As a second step I would suggest giving users the option of ranking the 
list of packages in each subview by the sum of the above three numbers.

Of course, I have no idea how much work might be involved in doing this, 
and how much interest there is from others. Anyone else have views?

Best regards

Richard.

        
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BioC2007: Where Software and Biology Connect
August 6-7 in Seattle, WA, USA

The BioC2007 developer-focused meeting is on August 8, the day *after*
the main conference.

In addition, I neglected to mention the poster session on Monday
evening.

Best,

Martin Morgan
-- 
Bioconductor / Computational Biology
http://bioconductor.org


Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> writes: