Re: [R-pkg-devel] read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository on GitHub

2019-04-12 Thread Gábor Csárdi
I have just added this package. The mirror had some hiccups a couple of weeks ago when we had to switch to synchronize from a cran mirror instead of the main CRAN site. Turns out mirrors often have slightly inconsistent data/metadata, not very surprisingly, and this threw off the mirroring script.

Re: [R-pkg-devel] read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository on GitHub

2019-04-11 Thread Ben Bolker
It's provided by METACRAN: https://www.r-pkg.org/about https://github.com/metacran/metacranweb/issues is a good place to report problems/ask questions. On 2019-04-11 8:56 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: > I don't think "CRAN" (R Core) _ever_ did this... it was a volunteer effort > by someone

Re: [R-pkg-devel] read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository on GitHub

2019-04-11 Thread Jeff Newmiller
I don't think "CRAN" (R Core) _ever_ did this... it was a volunteer effort by someone independently. On April 11, 2019 4:16:47 PM PDT, Mohammad Ali Nilforooshan wrote: >Hi, > >In the past, there were read-only mirrors of the CRAN R packages on >GitHub >(i.e., https://github.com/cran/). >I