R help - Jan 2010 - Number of download.

Hi the list

Is there a way to know how many times an R package (on CRAN) has been 
download ?

Christophe

Hello

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Christophe Genolini
<cgenolin at u-paris10.fr> 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/

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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