Subject: Re: recent download statistics
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 16:15:34 +0200
From: Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at
To: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
CC: r-core@stat.math.ethz.ch

Sorry, that were simple hit counts.

A grep on the actual file size reduces the numbers for windows by a
factor of 5, i.e., only 4000 completed downloads. Completed source
downloads are 2300, mac is 1000

Zu früh gefreut ...

.f

>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2002 14:47:38 +0100 (BST),
>>>>> Prof Brian D Ripley (PBDR) wrote:

  > Are these completed downloads?  When I last analysed our server logs, I
  > found the raw counts included many unsuccesssful attempts and so
  > over-estimated the true number several times.

  > Interesting to speculate on the volume to be added for the mirrors, but I
  > can only speculate.

  > On Wed, 29 May 2002 Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at wrote:

  >>
  >> I'm currently writing the slides for a presentation and want to
  >> include some recent CRAN download statistics ... maybe you're
  >> interested, too:
  >>
  >> In Mai 2002 (following the 1.5.0 release) we had approximately 28000
  >> downloads (20k win, 4.5k sources, 2k macos, the rest is spread over
  >> various linux binaries etc.).
  >>
  >> macosx is almost non-existing, with 143 downloads of atlas/1.4 but
  >> virtually no no_atlas/1.5
  >>
  >> Numbers for April are approximately half that size (downloading
  >> 1.4.1).
  >>
  >> .f
  >>

  > --
  > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
  > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
  > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
  > 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272860 (secr)
  > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595