On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Martin Maechler<maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Yes! And visualize the corresponding "nearest neigbourhood" > for each CRAN mirror on a world map > and make this dynamically refreshing every few minutes > and put it on a webserver so people can watch the "CRAN world" > in real time! It would be useful if CRAN sites could give their lat-long explicitly. GeoNames finds 32 "Chapel Hill"s in the USA. All of them bar two have a population of zero though, so an automatic system could have a pretty good guess at which one it was (the one in NC with 47,529 people, or the one in TN with 943?). Coords could just be added to the CRAN_mirrors.csv file. I might try and geocode the lot later. I suppose it might be possible to have a non-geographic CRAN mirror though, since a DNS entry could point to one of a global network of servers.... Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
