Get Bioconductor Package Download Statistics — get_package_download

Downloads and processes monthly download statistics for a Bioconductor package from the Bioconductor package statistics archive. Returns the full history, the total downloads over the last 6 full months (current month excluded), and the all-time total downloads.

Usage

get_package_download_bioconductor(pkg)

Arguments

pkg: Character string. The name of a Bioconductor package (e.g. "GenomicRanges").

Value

A list with three elements:

all_data: A data.frame of the full cleaned dataset with dates and cumulative counts.
total_6_months: Total downloads in the last 6 complete months.
total_download: Total all-time downloads.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  result <- get_package_download_bioconductor("bioconductorpackage")
  print(result$total_6_months)
  head(result$all_data)
  
#$all_data
#Date Year Month Nb_of_distinct_IPs Nb_of_downloads Cumulative_downloads
#1   2009-01-01 2009   Jan               3341            7053                 7053
#2   2009-02-01 2009   Feb               3229            6681                13734
#3   2009-03-01 2009   Mar               3753            8021                21755
  
  #$total_6_months
  #[1] 547560
  
  #$total_download
  #[1] 7318550
} # }