Using R for weblog analysis
Apache Weblog Analysis Whether you run your own blog or web server or use some hosted service – at some point you may be interested in some information on how well your server or your users are doing. Many infos like hit frequency, geolocation of users and distribution of spent bandwidth are very useful for this and can be obtained in different ways: by instrumenting the page running inside the client browser (eg piwik) by analysis of the web server logs (eg webalizer) For the latter I have been using for several years webalizer, which does nice web based analysis plots. More recently I moved to a more complicated server environment with several virtual web services and I found the configuration and data selection options a bit limting. Hence I started as a toy project to implement the same functionality with a set of simple R scripts, which I will progressively share here. ...