From jfox at mcmaster.ca  Fri Jan 18 23:18:40 2008
From: jfox at mcmaster.ca (John Fox)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:18:40 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
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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?

Regards,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
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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)
John Fox