Introduction

This package allows you to download the statistics of BioConductor packages’ downloads as reported by http://bioconductor.org/packages/stats/.

Usage

The main function of this package is called bioC_downloads. The function accepts several arguments: packages names, format and verbose.

argument	Description
packages names	is the name(s) of the package(s) you want to download the stats, for multiple package it should be a list of the packages names
format	accepts two options: "bioC" (default) will report the downloads as reported by bioconductor, ie. “Year Month Nb_of_distinct_IPs Nb_of_downloads”; or, "CRAN" will report as CRAN logs does, ie. “Date Nb_of_downloads package_Name”
verbose	is a boolean flag indicating whether to print information about the processes

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• The function will return a list containing a dataframe per package entered with columns as indicated by the format argument Notice that when the format is set to “CRAN”, the date will be formatted to days-month-year. Because BioConductor reports only totals per month the “day” in this case will be set to 28 for every month.

• The function will also attempt to report when a package names has been misspelled or just the server is not reachable. If you are receiving warning messages please check either of these situations.

Installation

For using the “bioC.logs” package, first you will need to install it.

Thes table version can be downloaded from the CRAN repository:

install.packages("bioC.logs")

To obtain the development version you can get it from the github repository, i.e.

# need devtools for installing from the github repo
install.packages("devtools")

# install bioC.logs
devtools::install_github("mponce0/bioC.logs")

# load bioC.logs
library(bioC.logs)

Examples

You will need an active internet connection, as bioC.logs will download the reports from the BioConductor website on demand.

bioC_downloads(c("ABarray","a4Classif"))

bioC_downloads("edgeR",verbose=FALSE)

edgeR.logs <- bioC_downloads("edgeR",format="CRAN")