CRAN mirror - how many amount?

Lukasz Komsta wrote on 4/21/2005 10:54 AM:

Dear colleagues,

I have just read http://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html, but there 
is no information what amount of disk space is enough to download 
complete CRAN copy and setup a mirror. Is there any person informed here?

Regards,

Others might correct me, but I believe you can do the following (on Linux):

rsync -nrtlvz cran.r-project.org::CRAN | grep "total"

where -n does a dry run. When I did this, I got 5,116,091,154 bytes (or 
~5GB).

HTH,

--sundar