Message-ID: <CABdHhvHgr4h8sXN8qcfbLj5O=Uw363KLbJYB6kQRuHhQ-O+X0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2014-02-14T20:02:41Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: contrib.url in non-interactive mode
In-Reply-To: <CANVKczMgdSt3v=mOhZjYYJ3u6zTkEveGUdH=ei8+L6Uvwj4N+Q@mail.gmail.com>
>> It is up to you to set a default mirror: we have little idea where you
>> live (and it may not be where your email address suggests). Geolocation
>> of mirrors had been mooted but not implemented (and in a corporate
>> setting is not 100% reliable). The whole point of mirrors is to spread
>> the load: without them there would be no CRAN as the main host would not
>> allow the traffic.
>>
>>
> The RStudio CRAN mirror uses Amazon's CDN to achieve a degree of geographic
> convenience:
>
> http://blog.rstudio.org/2013/06/10/rstudio-cran-mirror/
Cloudfront, the service we use, currently has 36 locations around the
world: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/.
Hadley
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