[R] popular R packages

[Christos Hatzis]

Bioconductor already provides download stats for all packages...

http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/bioc/affy.html

-Christos 

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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Max Kuhn
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:25 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages
> 
> If is easy to get the download numbers, we should do it and 
> deal with the interpretation issues. I'd like to know the 
> numbers so I can understand which (of my) packages have the 
> most usage.
> 
> One other compication about # downloads: I suspect that a 
> package being on teh depends/suggests/imports list of another 
> package might be a big driver with respect to how many times 
> that it was downloaded.
> 
> If I remember correctly, about 5 years ago Bioconductor asked 
> for volunteers to review packages to get detailed, specific 
> feedback by people who use the package (and should be fairly 
> R proficient). I think that this is pretty important and 
> something like Crantastic is a good interface. I personally 
> got a lot out of the comments the a JSS reviewer had for a package.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Max
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