Re: [R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Why would this be evil? For R, for example? I've already read some > objections to this on r-help, but I'm not sure I understand the > reasons. As long as the 'ping' happens once, at first start, > anonymously, and requires confirmation fro

Re: [R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/19/10, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > 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

Re: [R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:23 PM, David Winsemius 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 wa

Re: [R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread David Winsemius
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://fin

Re: [R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote: > Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been > download ? > Recently this page [1] was set up, but it doesn't seem updated for some time now. Liviu [1] http://neolab.stat.ucla.edu/cranstats/ ___

[R] Number of download.

2010-01-19 Thread Christophe Genolini
Hi the list Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been download ? Christophe __ 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/posti