[R] Number of download.

[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://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