A quick notice for anyone who uses cron-like scripts to get R source tarballs from the ETH R/daily/ s:
I've finally switched to replace *.bz2 by *.xz which does save quite a bit of bandwidth. Currently, you can see the 2 day old *.bz2 (and their sizes) and compare with the new *.xz one (sorted newest first): https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/?C=M;O=D Best, Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel