CRAN links
i just checked with netscape 4.79 on win2k, and i had no problem getting the directory listing of ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/
Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
Is anyone else have trouble with links to CRAN, R, R-CRAN, etc. at <ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/> ?
Curious. I fixed up those directories and restarted the ftp server on
the machine that serves as cvs.r-project.org. Now I can reach those
directories via an ftp client (ncftp) but not via a web browser
(netscape). I'm not sure why.
The same file system is available as
http://cran.us.r-project.org/
I would recommend using that URL instead of ftp://cvs.r-project.org/
for an http client. A less desirable alternative is to notice that
the names /pub/CRAN, /pub/R, and /pub/R-CRAN are all symbolic links to
/pub/e19/CRAN and to use
ftp://cvs.r-project.org/pub/e19/CRAN
I'm not sure why a web browser cannot follow the symbolic link but an
ftp client can. I would have thought this would be determined by the
server, not by the client. Can anyone suggest why the symbolic links
do not work for netscape?
No, and it appears to be Netscape-specific too. Mozilla follows the links OK. (The form of the link - relative/absolute - appears to be irrelevant, so my first guess was wrong.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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