R help - Jan 2011 - httpd-access.log parsing and graph construction.

R gurus:

I'm thinking about using R for website traffic analysis but didn't find
anything in my web searches specific to R.

If I have the webpages (simple example would contain something like three (3)
static pages with a couple of links each) and parse the apache access log file
(httpd-access.log), then I can populate the graph representing the website and
perform whatever analysis I need. Yes?

I've used the igraph package, not graph, but was assuming there's some
existing functionality to perform these tasks.

Any thoughts? Please reply privately. 

Respectfully,
Jeff.


Jeff Hamann, PhD
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Hi Jeff,

I am not sure what you want to do, but the 'graph' and 'igraph'
packages are for network, graph theory, i.e.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory

If you think that this is the kind of tool you need, look over the
manual of the packages, and the documentation at the igraph homepage
at http://igraph.sf.net to see what these packages can do for you.

Best,
Gabor

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Jeff Hamann
<jeff.hamann at forestinformatics.com> wrote:
> R gurus:
>
> I'm thinking about using R for website traffic analysis but didn't
find anything in my web searches specific to R.
>
> If I have the webpages (simple example would contain something like three
(3) static pages with a couple of links each) and parse the apache access log
file (httpd-access.log), then I can populate the graph representing the website
and perform whatever analysis I need. Yes?
>
> I've used the igraph package, not graph, but was assuming there's
some existing functionality to perform these tasks.
>
> Any thoughts? Please reply privately.
>
> Respectfully,
> Jeff.
>
>
> Jeff Hamann, PhD
> PO Box 1421
> Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421
> 541-754-2457
> jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com
> jeff.d.hamann[at]gmail[dot]com
> http://www.forestinformatics.com
> http://forufus.blogspot.com/
> http://seekingalpha.com/author/jeff-d-hamann
>>
>
>
>
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