Around noon Wednesday, Sept 25, the machine that serves as rsync.r-project.org and cran.us.r-project.org had a catastrophic disk failure. I came back to my office after a lecture and immediately thought "I don't think disk drives are supposed to make grinding noises". :-) It was the drive with the system files that failed. Most user files and the CRAN archive (not to mention the CVS archive) are on another drive that is running fine. However, we did have to build and install the operating system from scratch then reinstall the files from the backups. Many people provided a great deal of help and we now have that computer running. I believe that rsync services and the CRAN mirror are running as expected. Be aware that they have not been updated since early Wednesday morning (U.S. Central Time). -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._