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Issue: #360
Bioconductor downloads
This PR adds functionality for caching downloads for packages on Bioconductor. Previously, this downloads functionality only attempted to get package downloads from CRAN, meaning popular Bioconductor packages were judged as if they had 0 downloads. With this change, assessments of Bioconductor package downloads should be more informative.
Background
Hi! My team and I at Novartis wanted to contribute this functionality to riskmetric as it is something we have implemented for an internal tool. I personally am quite new to software engineering, and this is my first PR for an open source project, so I would really appreciate any thoughts or feedback on how we can better integrate this functionality. Looking forward to the discussion!