Reading the documentation for mirmon, it also looks like it can output a machine readable state file. It would be really useful if this was published on the r-help page as then we could construct tools to automatically recommend mirrors based on average age and download speed.
Hadley On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > What's the procedure for removing out of date cran mirrors? I've just > discovered the fantastic http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html, > but there 4 mirrors that have not been updated in over a month, and > quite a few others that have a chequered past. Given that there are > many additional mirrors available, and the poor user experience if a > bad mirror is selected, perhaps these poorly functioning mirrors could > be removed from the list? > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
