R SIG Debian - Aug 2014 - Cran instructions for adding mirrors

Folks,
I used the cran instructions for installing R on Linux Mint Maya (here:
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/).

Things went well but I got the following error messages:
> ERROR###ERROR###ERROR###ERROR###ERROR###ERROR###ERROR
> W:Failed to fetch
http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/dists/raring-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages 
404  Not Found
> , W:Failed to fetch
http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/dists/raring-backports/restricted/binary-i386/Packages
404  Not Found
> , W:Failed to fetch
http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/dists/raring-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages
404  Not Found
> , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

Is there a problem with the "hoobly" mirror (PA), the instructions,
Linux Mint Maya update manager or with me?

Here is my sources.list file:
> deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted universe
multiverse
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security main restricted
universe multiverse
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise partner
> # deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ precise free non-free
> 
> # deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb apps
> # deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu precise-getdeb games
> 
> # Added by KW
> deb http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
> deb http://cran.mirrors.hoobly.com/ raring-backports main restricted
universe

--
Thanks in advance,
Best,
KW
--

Just use   cran.rstudio.com   which is provided by a CDN [1] so it's
basically "always" close to you, irrespective of where you are.   

I find it consistently faster than other mirrors too.

And they are now also getting more frequent push pulses from CRAN...

Dirk

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org