Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hadley Wickham wrote: * I don't recall receiving any automated notices about problems, and I've just tried searching for combinations of R 2.10, warning and ggplot2 as well as several other attempts and haven't been able to find anything. I normally try and keep on top of issues like this. G

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hadley Wickham wrote: Note that with such a policy, half CRAN packages wouldn't work anymore, because then we'd had "cut off" several packages away that are dependencies for others etc. Examples for packages we probably should "cut off" now (since they already caused too much time looking at th

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
>>  * I don't recall receiving any automated notices about problems, and >> I've just tried searching for combinations of R 2.10, warning and >> ggplot2 as well as several other attempts and haven't been able to >> find anything.  I normally try and keep on top of issues like this. > > Great, thank

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Well, then we would have to create "two classes" of mirrors: If ETH > Zürich goes down I'd prefer to inform Martin Mächler that there is a > problem rather than cutting off automatically (same for a lot of > others). Oh, good point. > But note that the list of "monitored mirrors" is a superset

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Note that with such a policy, half CRAN packages wouldn't work anymore, > because then we'd had "cut off" several packages away that are dependencies > for others etc. > Examples for packages we probably should "cut off" now (since they already > caused too much time looking at them) are: > >   c

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:46:11 -0600, > Hadley Wickham (HW) wrote: >> Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather >> cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any >> more and so on. > I'd be more draconian - if the mirror doesn'

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hadley Wickham wrote: Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any more and so on. I'd be more draconian - if the mirror doesn't update for two weeks, just cut it off automatically. If they want

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather > cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any > more and so on. I'd be more draconian - if the mirror doesn't update for two weeks, just cut it off automatically. If they want to get back on the li

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hadley Wickham wrote: Reading the documentation for mirmon, it also looks like it can output a machine readable state file. It would be really useful if this was published on the r-help page as then we could construct tools to automatically recommend mirrors based on average age and download s

Re: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
Reading the documentation for mirmon, it also looks like it can output a machine readable state file. It would be really useful if this was published on the r-help page as then we could construct tools to automatically recommend mirrors based on average age and download speed. Hadley On Tue, Nov

[Rd] Removing cran mirrors

2009-11-03 Thread Hadley Wickham
Hi all, What's the procedure for removing out of date cran mirrors? I've just discovered the fantastic http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html, but there 4 mirrors that have not been updated in over a month, and quite a few others that have a chequered past. Given that there are many additi