CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)

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Anonymous () wrote:

?> Knowing what percentage of different OSes are being used is of
?> interest to package developers and would be obscured by the proposal
?> to massage the data. ?I prefer to see the raw figure as is.

?> Also the number of IPs are important and should not be removed in my
?> opinion since (1) it is a measure of clustering. ?If a package is
?> mainly used by the courses of a few universities where the students
?> really have no choice then that seems a lot different than if its used
?> by a variety of people around the world. ?Only the IPs would give any
?> clue to that. ?(2) it helps to diagnose intentional distortion of the
?> figures by repeat downloads to the same machine.

As Hadley already pointed out we cannot make CRAN logs publicly
available for privacy reasons. That would be a violation of national
laws.