Lukasz Komsta wrote on 4/21/2005 10:54 AM:> Dear colleagues,
>
> I have just read http://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html, but there
> is no information what amount of disk space is enough to download
> complete CRAN copy and setup a mirror. Is there any person informed here?
>
> Regards,
>
Others might correct me, but I believe you can do the following (on Linux):
rsync -nrtlvz cran.r-project.org::CRAN | grep "total"
where -n does a dry run. When I did this, I got 5,116,091,154 bytes (or
~5GB).
HTH,
--sundar