Hervé Pagès
2023-Sep-09 00:56 UTC
[Rd] FYI: daily R source tarballs from ETH: *.xz instead of *.bz2)
Hi Martin, Sounds good. Are there any plans to support the xz compression for package source tarballs? Thanks, H. On 9/8/23 06:44, Martin Maechler wrote:> A quick notice for anyone who uses cron-like scripts to get > R source tarballs from the ETH R/daily/ s: > > I've finally switched to replace *.bz2 by *.xz which does save > quite a bit of bandwidth. > > Currently, you can see the 2 day old *.bz2 (and their sizes) and > compare with the new *.xz one (sorted newest first): > > https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/?C=M;O=D > > > Best, > Martin > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel-- Herv? Pag?s Bioconductor Core Team hpages.on.github at gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Prof Brian Ripley
2023-Sep-12 05:39 UTC
[Rd] FYI: daily R source tarballs from ETH: *.xz instead of *.bz2)
On 09/09/2023 01:56, Herv? Pag?s wrote:> Hi Martin, > > Sounds good. Are there any plans to support the xz compression for > package source tarballs?What makes you think it is not supported? R CMD INSTALL happily installs .tar.xz files, and the name is not used to detect compression so .tar.gz files could be bzip2- or xz-compressed. Note that tarball compression is pretty much irrelevant where the tarball contains large compressed files, for example .rda files or vendor.tar.xz files of Rust sources. You have to arrange that the first compression is the bast possible. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford