On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:23 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > 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.)
In a similar vein, has anyone ever put any 'phone home' code in a package, so that authors can track usage? Something in the package startup code that pings a logging server, for example? Yes I know doing such a thing without telling the user and giving them an opt-out is evil. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
