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 a 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 an 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.
Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
2 messages · Robert Baer, John Fox
Dear Robert, Your wish is granted retroactively; just put options(repos=c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran", CRANextra="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? Regards, John -------------------------------- John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox
-----Original Message----- From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r- 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 a 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 an 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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