On 17/01/16 23:51, peter dalgaard wrote:
On 17 Jan 2016, at 05:07 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
In another thread you wrote:
One note: The "cloud" CRAN server is nowadays reachable as
https://cloud.r-project.org
and that is now the preferred URL.
Should I understand from this that it is considered advisable that
I use this URL as my default repository for downloading R and
contributed packages from CRAN? Rather than making use of my
"local mirror" (in my case http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz)?
No, not necessarily. It just means that the cloud service now has an
official name as an R-project server. The main issue is that the name
no longer implies a reliance on Rstudio as a company, nor can it be
interpreted as advertisment of their services.
(Rstudio still pioneered the service and, at least for now, also
provides the infrastructure, and they deserve a lot of thanks for
that. It was just that people were being apprehensive about using
Rstudio services without using their products and about the long-term
reliability of infrastructure rooted in a single commercial
company.)
Okay, gottit. Thanks Peter.
cheers,
Rolf
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