Message-ID: <E1824758-B4FE-4E4A-B0EE-03EC2D7B7E8A@comcast.net>
Date: 2010-01-19T20:23:26Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Number of download.
In-Reply-To: <4B560D53.6040201@u-paris10.fr>
On Jan 19, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote:
> Hi the list
>
> Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has
> been download ?
No, or at least not a comprehensive number. The question came up and
was discussed in March last year. Search term "popular".:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-March/thread.html
The was considerable disagreement about the validity of any such
number. This is Dirk's offering, which I assume is specific to Debian
and appears to be the only data offered:
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=r-base
More generally, it was stated that the CRAN mirroring mechanism does
not support data collection of this sort. (But it appears that the
UCLA server may be an exception.)
>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT