Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

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From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard
Sent: January-18-08 5:40 PM
To: jfox at mcmaster.ca
Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
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jfox at mcmaster.ca wrote:

Dear Robert,

Your wish is granted retroactively; just put

  options(repos=3Dc(CRAN=3D"http://probability.ca/cran",
CRANextra=3D"http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"))

in your Rprofile.site file, which lives in R's etc directory (or in

another

appropriate startup file -- see ?Startup). Of course, you would

adjust CRAN

to point to a CRAN mirror near you.

BTW, this isn't really a bug report, is it?

It's an enhancement request. We do allow those.
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The idea seems sound enough: Just have the mirror selection widget
offer
to store the selection - er- somewhere for later use. Point being of
course that people can never remeber what to write in which
configuration file in which directory.
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One tricky issue is whether we want the GUI to edit the Rprofile
(probably not) or add yet another configuration file that would be
overridden (probably not) by or override (probably not either) the
hand-written Rprofile files....
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    -p

Regards,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

-----Original Message-----
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project.org] On Behalf Of rbaer at atsu.edu
Sent: January-18-08 11:40 AM
To: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

Full_Name: Robert Baer
Version: 2.6.1
OS: Windows XP
Submission from: (NULL) (198.209.172.95)


It would be wonderful if the CRAN mirror had an easy way to set a
"default CRAN
mirror".

Current behavior is to have to choose a CRAN mirror the first time =

package is
installed in a session.  The closest mirror site is always the same

for

me, and
I wouldn't wish to change it unless it were to be unavailable for =

extended
period of time.  I expect I could set it in a configuration file
somewhere with
some study, but this is the type of thing that is much more easily

and

appropriately done through a GUI.

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