Generally it's good behaviour if a package returns a data structure of the same shape when it's given empty inputs, in order to avoid breaking downstream code. So for an empty package list I would hope for dlstats to return a data frame with 0 rows, but the regular columns such as Nb_of_downloads and package.

At the moment this happens:

> dlstats::bioc_stats(character())
NULL
> dlstats::bioc_stats("DelayedArray")
        start        end Nb_of_distinct_IPs Nb_of_downloads      package
1  2016-12-01 2016-12-31                 14              23 DelayedArray
2  2017-01-01 2017-01-31                 12              16 DelayedArray
3  2017-02-01 2017-02-28                198             352 DelayedArray

Hi -- not sure your repo is the best place for this question, but I don't know where else to ask.

The Rstudio CRAN package downloads go back to 2012, but the cran_stats() function only retrieves data back to 2017 due to this:

Would you be willing to modify this hardcoded date limit and supply a start year argument to the function?

thanks!

Hi!
I tried to fetch some download statistics with the example provided on your page, but it returns a message
"OMITTED: dlstats,emojifont,rvcheck download stats not found or currently not available..."

Do you have any idea why this is happening?

All the best
Liis

This works:

res1 <- dlstats::cran_stats(packages = c("ad4","badger","bayeslm"))

But this returns an empty data.frame (often, but not always):

cran <- utils::available.packages()
res2 <- dlstats::cran_stats(packages = cran$Package)

Not sure where this inconsistency is coming from. Perhaps an issue with making lots of API queries at a time?

I notice that using the dlstats::cran_stats / dlstats::bioc_stats for large numbers of packages often causes All the connections are in use: Execution halted errors. Might be related.

Thanks,
Brian

Session info

I'm currently using the development version of dlstats ( 0.1.6) to address another issue #3

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Hi GuangChuang, @GuangchuangYu

The biocApp() fails to render when including experiment data packages in the query:

> packageVersion("dlstats")
[1] '0.1.6'

Query

MultiAssayExperiment, TENxIO, terraTCGAdata, SingleCellMultiModal

Error

Error: [object Object]