From hadley at rice.edu  Tue Nov  3 15:58:55 2009
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:58:55 -0600
Subject: [Rd] Removing cran mirrors
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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 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
> 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 What's the procedure for removing out of date cran mirrors?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 additional mirrors available, and the poor user experience if a
> bad mirror is selected, perhaps these poorly functioning mirrors could
> be removed from the list?
>
> Hadley
>
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[Rd] Removing cran mirrors
Hadley Wickham