>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>>> on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:04 +0000 writes:
> This is not the CRAN webmaster's address[*], and the
> problem has been reported several times already to the
> proper places. No one reading this list apart from the
> handful with CRAN administrator rights can do anything
> about this.
> The package repository is still there, and the check
> information is still up (via
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html).
> The only thing that appears to be missing is the
> web-formatted summary information. That is secondary
> information, and it looks like the web/packages area needs
> to be regenerated.
> My memory is that some of the mirrors do not auto-delete,
> and so will remain populated. I believe
> http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/ to be one of those
> and it looks intact.
Well, yes..
Actually, my mirroring script does auto-deletion but "slowly":
never more than a few hundred files at a time
(apart from the 'Recommended/' subdirectories: There, it is
important to delete, i.e., important to not have more than one
version of a recommended package .. for our tools/rsync-recommended
script )
> [*] I believe that to be cranad...@r-project.org
Almost: cran-ad...@r-project.org
(or any other capitalization of that)
> On 30/12/2011 21:32, Paul Gilbert wrote:
>> The packages link on CRAN (http://cran.at.r-project.org/)
>> seems to be broken.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Object not found! The requested URL was not found on
>> this server. The link on the referring
>> page<http://cran.at.r-project.org/navbar.html> seems to
>> be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that
>> page <http://cran.at.r-project.org/navbar.html> about the
>> error. If you think this is a server error, please
>> contact the webmaster
>> <mailto:%5bno%20address%20given%5d>. Error 404
>> cran.at.r-project.org<http://cran.at.r-project.org/> Fri
>> Dec 30 22:20:48 2011 Apache/2.2.21 (Debian)
>>
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