There was a similar thread earlier this year http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/03/1785.html
I think I previously made the suggestion that you could download this from an internet cafe. I am not sure if these cafes allow you to plug in your own laptop or burn it for you. If you have a DVD readable CDROM and a DVD writer, you could opt for that. Failing that, you could see if someone in your local R-group or university department has the latest R on disc. But the real question is that if there are enough people on slow connection that are interested in obtaining R. Regards, Adai On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm sure I'm speaking for more than a few (though > possibly a minority) here. > > There's something of a hidden assumption that R users > can readily download whatever they need from CRAN. > > Some of us are on narrow bandwidth dialup connections, > so downloading large quantities of stuff is out of the > question (e.g. at approx. 5min/MB, it would take over > 2 days to download a single CD). The meat of CRAN > (including contributed packages and documentation) > is enough to fill 5 CDs, though one individual probably > wouldn't be interested in all of that. > > (And, before anyone asks, no I won't be seeing broadband > in the foreseeable future!) > > I've worked round this in various ways in the past. > Some Linux distributions (e.g. RedHat, SuSE) come with the > basics of R on their CDs, so when I've upgraded Linux > I've got a new R (though not the latest). Linux Emporium > once obligingly did me a custom CD very cheaply with the > contributed packages. A friend with high-bandwidth access > did me the 5 CDs in return for a pub lunch. And so on. > One can get round it by bothering someone. > > What I'd like to suggest, for consideration, is that along > with the stirling work done at many centres to set up and > maintain mirrors of CRAN, some might consider offering also > the service of burning CDs on request, for a reasonable > charge. The difficulty, of course, is that it's going to > take someone's time om something which may well not be > their proper business. > > (I'm prompted to think about this again by the emergence > of R-2 -> 2.0.1 -> one day soon? -> 2.1. This is clearly > a major advance in R and changes several things, so I'm > looking at a major download operation, if not by me then > by somebody that I can get CDs from, if I'm to be sure > of being up to date on everything I'd like to have. And > I'm sure I'm not the only one.) > > I'd be interested in people's comments on this proposal. > > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] > Date: 16-Nov-04 Time: 21:39:14 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- Adaikalavan Ramasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Statistics in Medicine http://www.ihs.ox.ac.uk/csm/ Cancer Research UK Tel : 01865 226 677 Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford Fax : 01865 226 962 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
