CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
As Hadley already pointed out we cannot make CRAN logs publicly available for privacy reasons. That would be a violation of national laws.
I think that's unlikely. ?There is no info given out identifying users. ?There are lots of web stats on the net.
Fritz and Stefan are concerned about making the raw logs available online, not summarised web statistics. The concern is about IP addresses which can be used to identify individual users. ?This may be commercially sensitive information - for example, you could use this information to find out what packages your competitors are using.
That's not a problem if CRAN itself creates the page. Alternately it would be easy enough to make the ip address anonymous by converting it to a factor and outputting the factor level numbers instead of the level names.