Gábor Csárdi

@Robinlovelace Only the platforms at https://github.com/r-hub/sysreqsdb/tree/master/platforms are supported currently, and you need to set the platform manually.

It turns out that these are HTTP HEAD requests, from an lftp client. I guess it is some feature of lftp. I'll try to update the original script that creates...

It seems that I cannot fix this in the original script. I'll filter them out in my DB update script then. The smallest CRAN package tarball is 1189 bytes currently,...

> If possible, it might be better to leave the logs as "raw" as possible for those who might be interested However without the additional information that these are `HEAD`...

> But I am curious. Besides HEAD requests, why else would we see these small "downloads"? Are aborted "downloads" in the log? Every request is in the log I think,...

I don't think so.

I think there is an API for this, actually: https://github.com/r-hub/cranlogs.app#total-downloads-over-a-period-downloadstotalperiodpackage1package2 Would you like to send a PR?

Well, that's the URL length limit I guess, because the package names are sent in the URL. We could have a `POST` API, and then there is no limit.

Everywhere. Frankly, it is simpler to return all packages, if you want 8000, then you might as well get all of them. :)

Yes. It will be also used by pak soon.