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Cran instructions for adding mirrors

4 messages · Keith S Weintraub, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Keith S Weintraub
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Folks,
I used the cran instructions for installing R on Linux Mint Maya (here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/).

Things went well but I got the following error messages:
Is there a problem with the "hoobly" mirror (PA), the instructions, Linux Mint Maya update manager or with me?

Here is my sources.list file:
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Thanks in advance,
Best,
KW
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Dirk Eddelbuettel
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Just use   cran.rstudio.com   which is provided by a CDN [1] so it's
basically "always" close to you, irrespective of where you are.   

I find it consistently faster than other mirrors too.

And they are now also getting more frequent push pulses from CRAN...

Dirk

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Keith S Weintraub
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Dirk,
Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately I get the same error messages.

KW

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On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On 7 August 2014 at 12:41, Keith S Weintraub wrote:

        
| Dirk,
| Thanks for the info.
| 
| Unfortunately I get the same error messages.

Then your entry is wrong, or your network connection doesn't exist, or it is
some other error.

The README on CRAN works for a lot of people, including myself for what must
be a dozen machines at home and work.

Here is the entry from the machine I am typing this on:

# edd 08 Nov 2009  CRAN via R-Project.org
#        Apr 2014  switched to RStudio CDN
deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ 

Dirk