Message-ID: <971536df0911230914j72f2e676yfd2a99a3caeccaba@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-11-23T17:14:34Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: CRAN Server download statistics (Was: R Usage Statistics)
In-Reply-To: <f8e6ff050911230909m657bbbcekd269026714ead40d@mail.gmail.com>
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.