Thanks for taking the time to fill a bug report.

On 25 May 2011 at 09:54, Henry House wrote:
| Package: r-base
| Severity: wishlist
| 
| 
| It would be convenient if the packaging system asked once for selection of a 
CRAN mirror when installing R and configured this selection to 
/etc/R/Rprofile.site so that the user didn't get asked to pick a CRAN mirror 
each time when using install.packages.().

I think this is best left to local user / administrator.  I set mine in
~/.Rprofile. The overall philosophy of the install process has moved towards
asking as few questions as possible -- with 1200, 1300, 1400, ... packages
you really don't want to answer all of them.

In this particular case, /etc/R/Rprofile.site even contains commented-out
code that sets a repo according to the user's preferences.  That is about all
we can do now I am afraid.

Regards,  Dirk


| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: 6.0.1
|   APT prefers stable-updates
|   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
| Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| 
| 

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