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CRAN master, R-Forge, R-Project websites down

2 messages · "Stefan Peter Theußl", Peter Dalgaard

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"Stefan Peter Theußl"
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Dear R users and developers,

Due to a failure of the electrical system, the IT services (also hosting R-project related websites) of the WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) are currently unavailable. 

Affected websites and services are: CRAN master (cran.r-project.org), the R-project website (www.r-project.org) and R-Forge (r-forge.r-project.org). 

The R binaries and sources as well as packages can still be downloaded by any CRAN mirrors distributed all over the world. Please select a different mirror than "Austria" in R (GUI).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Best regards,
Stefan Theussl
Peter Dalgaard
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(Resending, forgot to cc. r-help)
On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Stefan Peter Theu?l wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Actually, it's a bit worse, because many CRAN sites are aliased to wu-wien, which does the redirection (I suppose the reason is that the mirror sites don't do virtual hosts). E.g., for cran.dk.r-project.org, you currently need to know that the server is actually http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/ or get stuck waiting for a response from Vienna. There seems to be similar issues with the UK and DE (and IT and CH and...) mirrors, but not with the US one. 

-p

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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