Removing cran mirrors
Hadley Wickham wrote:
Reading the documentation for mirmon, it also looks like it can output a machine readable state file. It would be really useful if this was published on the r-help page as then we could construct tools to automatically recommend mirrors based on average age and download speed. Hadley On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
Hi all, What's the procedure for removing out of date cran mirrors? I've just discovered the fantastic http://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html, but there 4 mirrors that have not been updated in over a month, and quite a few others that have a chequered past. Given that there are many additional mirrors available, and the poor user experience if a bad mirror is selected, perhaps these poorly functioning mirrors could be removed from the list?
Fritz does that from time to time. Note that this is always rather cumbersome: trying to contact maintainers whose addresses do not exist any more and so on. Best, Uwe
Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/