CRAN links are available again

Martin Maechler<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
     on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:15:10 +0100 writes:

Prof Brian Ripley<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
     on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:04 +0000 writes:

     >>  This is not the CRAN webmaster's address[*], and the
     >>  problem has been reported several times already to the
     >>  proper places.  No one reading this list apart from the
     >>  handful with CRAN administrator rights can do anything
     >>  about this.

     >>  The package repository is still there, and the check
     >>  information is still up (via
     >>  http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html).
     >>  The only thing that appears to be missing is the
     >>  web-formatted summary information.  That is secondary
     >>  information, and it looks like the web/packages area
     >>  needs to be regenerated.

     >>  My memory is that some of the mirrors do not auto-delete,
     >>  and so will remain populated.  I believe
     >>  http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/ to be one of those
     >>  and it looks intact.

     >  Well, yes..  Actually, my mirroring script does
     >  auto-deletion but "slowly": never more than a few hundred
     >  files at a time (apart from the 'Recommended/'
     >  subdirectories: There, it is important to delete, i.e.,
     >  important to not have more than one version of a
     >  recommended package .. for our tools/rsync-recommended
     >  script )

In the mean time, I have
  - changed my mirror script to *NOT* delete anything for now
  - rsync'ed (-u: do not overwrite newer)
    a backup of web/packages/ from  2011-12-29 12:20:29

This has recovered 76 Mega bytes already..
Now indeed,  the CH mirror should contain a full web/packages/
again,
i.e. -->   http://cran.CH.r-project.org/web/packages/
which is  http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/

should again be "fully loaded".

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich