On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> > It is up to you to set a default mirror: we have little idea where you > live (and it may not be where your email address suggests). Geolocation > of mirrors had been mooted but not implemented (and in a corporate > setting is not 100% reliable). The whole point of mirrors is to spread > the load: without them there would be no CRAN as the main host would not > allow the traffic. > > The RStudio CRAN mirror uses Amazon's CDN to achieve a degree of geographic convenience: http://blog.rstudio.org/2013/06/10/rstudio-cran-mirror/ As far as I know all the other CRAN mirrors are geographically nailed down and your data will come out of that server in that data centre wherever you and it may be. Barry [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
