[R] R-business case

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 16-Mar-2004 at 04:50PM -0500, Jeff Gentry wrote:

|> >       Some web sites have "hit counters".  It should be possible to get 
|> > a counts of the numbers of times different parts of R are downloaded.  
|> > Do the CRAN web sites include any such? 
|> 
|> But how would CRAN know what sort of activity its mirrors is
|> receiving?  And what does a 'download' mean in an environment like this -
|> I could download R 10 times, or 10 people could download it ... or even
|> one person could download it and then give it to 50 people.  The numbers
|> don't necessarily reflect usage patterns, IMO.

Yes.  Such meters are almost, but not quite completely useless --
rather like Arthur Dent's attempts at getting a cup of tea from the
Nutrimatix drink dispenser.



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