>> It is up to you to set a default mirror: we have little idea where you >> live (and it may not be where your email address suggests). Geolocation >> of mirrors had been mooted but not implemented (and in a corporate >> setting is not 100% reliable). The whole point of mirrors is to spread >> the load: without them there would be no CRAN as the main host would not >> allow the traffic. >> >> > The RStudio CRAN mirror uses Amazon's CDN to achieve a degree of geographic > convenience: > > http://blog.rstudio.org/2013/06/10/rstudio-cran-mirror/
Cloudfront, the service we use, currently has 36 locations around the world: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
