From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Jan 18 23:40:20 2008
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:40:20 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
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jfox at mcmaster.ca wrote:
> Dear Robert,
>
> Your wish is granted retroactively; just put
>
>   options(repos=c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran",
> CRANextra="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"))
>
> in your Rprofile.site file, which lives in R's etc directory (or in another
> appropriate startup file -- see ?Startup). Of course, you would adjust CRAN
> to point to a CRAN mirror near you.
>
> BTW, this isn't really a bug report, is it?
>   
It's an enhancement request. We do allow those.

The idea seems sound enough: Just have the mirror selection widget offer 
to store the selection - er- somewhere for later use. Point being of 
course that people can never remeber what to write in which 
configuration file in which directory.

One tricky issue is whether we want the GUI to edit the Rprofile 
(probably not) or add yet another configuration file that would be 
overridden (probably not) by or override (probably not either) the 
hand-written Rprofile files....

    -p
> Regards,
>  John
>
> --------------------------------
> John Fox, Professor
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
> 905-525-9140x23604
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>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of rbaer at atsu.edu
>> Sent: January-18-08 11:40 AM
>> To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
>> Subject: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
>>
>> Full_Name: Robert Baer
>> Version: 2.6.1
>> OS: Windows XP
>> Submission from: (NULL) (198.209.172.95)
>>
>>
>> It would be wonderful if the CRAN mirror had an easy way to set a
>> "default CRAN
>> mirror".
>>
>> Current behavior is to have to choose a CRAN mirror the first time a
>> package is
>> installed in a session.  The closest mirror site is always the same for
>> me, and
>> I wouldn't wish to change it unless it were to be unavailable for an
>> extended
>> period of time.  I expect I could set it in a configuration file
>> somewhere with
>> some study, but this is the type of thing that is much more easily and
>> appropriately done through a GUI.
>>
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[Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
Peter Dalgaard