> On Nov 2, 2015, at 6:00 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: > > A rather silly question but I went to install a new package this morning and > as usual a list of CRAN mirrors appeared but the Canadian ones had > disappeared. > > Is this some peculiarity of my system (Ubuntu 14.10 with R version 3.2.2) or > a new policy for R? > > > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada
Hi John, Presuming that the CRAN mirror list online is current, there do not appear to be any CRAN mirrors in Canada which support secure HTTP (HTTPS), which is now the default in 3.2.2. See the announcement from August 14 (SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES and NEW FEATURES): https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2015/000589.html See ?chooseCRANmirror for more information. When you get a list of mirrors to select, by default the top of the list will include mirrors that support HTTPS. The last entry on the list should be (HTTP mirrors). Click that and it will bring up a list of additional mirrors, including Canadian locations, that support HTTP. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
