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Re: st: re: SSC Activity, November 2009
I'd love an account of why anyone should care in the least about SSC
download statistics, beyond personal vanity. (Which I don't discount,
or scorn--at times when I had somewhat more popular programs, I would
eagerly look each month to see where they were in the rankings. But in
the end, so what?)
Nick Winter
David Kantor wrote:
I am not advocating for one side or another, but I want to add the
possibility that if a particular program is mentioned on this list, then
possibly many readers will learn about it for the first time and decide
to download it -- all within a short time interval.
--David
At 09:26 AM 12/7/2009, Nick Cox wrote:
[...]
More importantly,
there could be any number of other interpretations for surprising
changes in the series, as for example, that someone is for a short
period repeatedly running a do file that installs the latest version of
one or more packages.
[...]
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