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5 messages · Paul Gilbert, Gabor Grothendieck, Brian Ripley +1 more

Paul Gilbert
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The packages link on CRAN (http://cran.at.r-project.org/)  seems to be 
broken.

Paul

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Gabor Grothendieck
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert902 at gmail.com> wrote:
Presumably this will propagate to the mirrors shortly, as well, if it
has not happened already.
Brian Ripley
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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.

[*] I believe that to be CRANadmin at r-project.org
On 30/12/2011 21:32, Paul Gilbert wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Martin Maechler
    

    

      
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> 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 )


    > [*] I believe that to be CRANadmin at r-project.org

Almost:   CRAN-admin at r-project.org
	  (or any other capitalization of that)

        
> On 30/12/2011 21:32, Paul Gilbert wrote:

        
>> The packages link on CRAN (http://cran.at.r-project.org/)
    >> seems to be broken.
    >> 
    >> Paul
    >> 
    >> Object not found!  The requested URL was not found on
    >> this server. The link on the referring
    >> page<http://cran.at.r-project.org/navbar.html> seems to
    >> be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that
    >> page <http://cran.at.r-project.org/navbar.html> about the
    >> error.  If you think this is a server error, please
    >> contact the webmaster
    >> <mailto:%5bno%20address%20given%5d>.  Error 404
    >> cran.at.r-project.org<http://cran.at.r-project.org/> Fri
    >> Dec 30 22:20:48 2011 Apache/2.2.21 (Debian)
    >> 
    >> ______________________________________________
    >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
    >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel


    > -- 
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    > Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
    > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South
    > Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax:
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      Martin Maechler
    

    

      
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>> 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