Le vendredi 28 septembre 2012 à 10:14 +0200, friedrich.lei...@r-project.org a écrit : > >>>>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:37:39 +0200, > >>>>> Milan Bouchet-Valat (MB) wrote: > > > Hi! > > One of the three French CRAN mirrors, cran.cict.fr (Toulouse) seems to > > be down most of the time, and at least really not reliable. It has > > currently been down for 28 days (!) [1], and I know that over two years > > I've rarely been able to use it (no response, slow, hangs...). > > > I'm sure the maintainers of this mirror mean well, but the result is > > really negative for French R users. This week I observed one user that > > failed to install a package because she selected that mirror and it was > > not available. Such a minor detail can give a very poor impression to > > beginners. > > > I suggest that either the maintainers of this mirror explain why it does > > not work and provide solutions to improve the situation, or it should be > > removed from the list until it works reliably. Not as a punishment of > > course, but for practical considerations. > > > At the very least this mirror should be moved down the list: at the > > moment it's the first of the three French mirrors, while the two others > > work very well. If the mirrors were sorted by the alphabetical order of > > their full names, it would be the last one, and it would be bite French > > users less often, while still acting as a fallback solution. > > It has already been removed a couple of days ago, have a look e.g. at > > http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html > > will need some time to propagate to all places. I had noticed it was not in the list, but I thought that was done automatically when a mirror was not responding. What a coincidence it was removed right before I write this message! ;-)
Glad to know this problem will no longer exist in the future. Regards ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
