> 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 of the list > of "listed mirrors": The first real problem mirror.cricyt.edu.ar is not > in the list of mirrors at http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html (and > what you get when you are online and select a mirror via GUI). Same > for all the other very bad ones. It is a simple Flag "use mirror" in the > master table, which is used both by R itself and the scripts creating > the webpages (which run fully automated). Ok, that makes sense. But would it be possible to make available the resources of the monitoring script in a machine readable form? It would be very useful to help suggest to people what mirror they should use - i.e. automatically select one that is both fast (for them) and is updated regularly. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
