Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread Uwe Ligges
Tal Galili wrote: Hi dear R help group. I was wondering how can I find out which CRAN mirror would be the fastest for me (I leave in Israel and therefore don't have a CRAN mirror for our country to go to by default) Hard to lee, you have to try out, I fear. The speed you see highly

Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2009/7/30 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Hard to lee, you have to try out, I fear. The speed you see highly depends on the connection from your country to others, but of course, there are also some mirrors that are not the fastest themselves. I figured you could write a

Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Maechler
Barry Rowlingson b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:59:47 +0100 writes: 2009/7/30 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Hard to lee, you have to try out, I fear. The speed you see highly depends on the connection from your country to others,

Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread Tal Galili
Barry - thank you, that is exactly what I had in mind (but had no knowledge on how to do) Martin - I am glad to see your interest in this. Should I now start following the R-devel so to know how this is being handled ? Barry and Martin, your posts made me smile, thank you both :) Tal On

Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread spencerg
There may also be a difference in reliability, which would not so easily be measured by an individual user. I've selected the closest geographically until it seemed to be down, then tried the second closest, etc. This could be automated centrally, but then you'd have to deal with the

Re: [R] Which CRAN mirror is the fastest ?

2009-07-30 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Martin Maechlermaech...@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