R devel - Apr 2005 - I'm unable to download R from any of the CRAN mirrors. A ny sugge (PR#7823)

Friedrich,

Thank you for your prompt response.  Unfortunately, none of the CRAN mirrors
seem to be working for me.  I'm not really sure what's going on since I
was
able to download R about a year ago, but I recently got a new computer and
needed to download it again.  I'll see if my support staff here at the
National Institutes of Health have any suggestions.

Thanks again,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at [mailto:Friedrich.Leisch@tuwien.ac.at] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:44 AM
To: Peter Dalgaard
Cc: Leifer, Eric (NIH/NHLBI); r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] I'm unable to download R from any of the CRAN mirrors. Any
sugge (PR#7823)

>>>>> On 29 Apr 2005 17:29:43 +0200,
>>>>> Peter Dalgaard (PD) wrote:
  > This is not a bug in R. Please do not misuse the bug repository.

  > The central CRAN site in Vienna was offline for some hours tonight.
  > This may have disrupted mirroring, but things look like they are back
  > to normal.

Actually if our server is down that shouldn't affect mirroring too much
(most mirroring software is smart enough not to delete everything is the
master site is unreacheable), but URLs of form

	cran.XX.r-project.org

may not work because most of them do not have a DNS entry but are apache
redirections by our server. In that case simply use a CRAN mirror with a non
r-project.org address, a current list can be obtained by running

 read.csv(file.path(R.home(), "doc", "CRAN_mirrors.csv",
as.is=TRUE))[,"URL"]

in a recent version of R ... I'll encapsulate that into a one-liner
CRAN_mirrors().

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