[tor-bugs] #2563 [Metrics]: Add R code for processing Torperf data to the Torperf repository

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#2563: Add R code for processing Torperf data to the Torperf repository
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  Reporter:  karsten      |              Owner:  karsten
      Type:  enhancement  |             Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal       |          Milestone:         
 Component:  Metrics      |            Version:         
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 Torperf writes its output to text files that are quite hard to comprehend
 and visualize.  The completion time needs to be calculated from columns 1,
 2, 17, and 18.  Also, we only recognize a timeout from the 17th column
 being 0 and a failure from the 20th column being smaller than the expected
 data size.

 Yes, this is documented ''somewhere.''  The measurement HOWTO has some
 bits of information, and the
 [https://metrics.torproject.org/papers/data-2010-12-29.pdf Overview of
 Statistical Data in the Tor Network] explains it some more.

 Still, it's not really intuitive to process Torperf data.

 We should take the R code from #2543 (and possibly other code?),
 generalize it a bit, document it for R-noobs, and put it in the Torperf
 repository.

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