Hi Uwe, On 25 May 2015 at 01:40, Uwe Ligges wrote: | Thanks for letting us know about the new website. Some comments: | | - Download statistics: Where are they from? CRAN does not monitor | downloads generally, maybe some selected mirrors do.
This is the "standard" data set which has been provided by RStudio based on the downloads from their 0-cloud content-delivery network. This is not new; if you ever looked at rdocumentation.org (the nice and useful site by the datacamp folks), they show(ed?) time-series plots of downloads on the per-package pages. Gabor has worked for quite some time on nice databasing of these number and APIs. He by now has a boatload of repositories at GitHub. For more on download stats, see eg http://cranlogs.r-pkg.org/ and follow the API docs. | - Section "Recently updated" can only hold 9 packages, but frequently | more than 9 get accepted even within an hour, hence not sure if this | makes sense. C'est la vie. For any cutoff one suggests, someone else will suggest that the number may be exceeded. I on the other hand find the site nicely symmetric offering 'top nine' in all three sections. | - The links "Download R" and "CRAN homepage" point to a particular link | of a mirror rather than the official pages. I'd appreciate if you do not | link to selected mirrors. The R homepage on purpose links to | http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html when pointing to CRAN. It may not be so clearcut. As previously discussed, I happen to take the other side here. I have long changed my scripts and settings on various machines as the CDN is _clearly_ superior in performance to the various US mirror I used over the years, some as hardcoded names, some as DNS round-robin or preference wrappers (eg cran.us.r-project.org). And by pointing to the "cloud" CDN I don't even need to change the entries on, say, my laptop when I travel to Europe. Also, given the popularity and load on CRAN, I can assure you that throughput is better at cran.rstudio.com. Hth, Dirk | | Best, | Uwe Ligges | | | | On 24.05.2015 11:44, Rainer M Krug wrote: | > Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> writes: | > | >> Dear All, | >> | >> [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] | >> | >> As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple | >> search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, | >> where you can also browse CRAN packages. | >> | >> http://www.r-pkg.org/ | >> | >> As I see the value is in | >> 1. package search (search box on top right) | >> 2. APIs, see http://www.r-pkg.org/services | >> | >> It is in alpha version, meaning that things seem to work, some pages are a | >> bit slow and there are a lot of glitches to fix. | > | > I had a quick peek, and it looks really nice! I particularly think the | > github integration for diff-ing versions can be very use full! | > | > It might be an idea, to also add R itself to the github repo for | > diff-ing? | > | > Thanks a lot, | > | > Rainer | > | >> | >> Please tell me what you think. | >> | >> Best, | >> Gabor | >> | >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | >> | > | > | > | > ______________________________________________ | > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel | > | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel@r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
