>>>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:39 +0200, >>>>> Milan Bouchet-Valat (MB) wrote:
> Hi! > One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to > be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has > currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that over two years > I've rarely been able to use it (no response, slow, hangs...). > I'm sure the maintainers of this mirror mean well, but the result is > really negative for French R users. This week I observed one user that > failed to install a package because she selected that mirror and it was > not available. Such a minor detail can give a very poor impression to > beginners. > I suggest that either the maintainers of this mirror explain why it does > not work and provide solutions to improve the situation, or it should be > removed from the list until it works reliably. Not as a punishment of > course, but for practical considerations. > At the very least this mirror should be moved down the list: at the > moment it's the first of the three French mirrors, while the two others > work very well. If the mirrors were sorted by the alphabetical order of > their full names, it would be the last one, and it would be bite French > users less often, while still acting as a fallback solution. It has already been removed a couple of days ago, have a look e.g. at http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html will need some time to propagate to all places. Best, Fritz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
