[Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)

[John Fox]

Dear Peter,

Actually, "Edit -> Gui preferences" will already edit/generate an Rprofile
file, so mirror selection could be put there. I frankly find it simpler on a
single-user Windows system just to edit Rprofile.site.

Best,
 John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard
> Sent: January-18-08 5:40 PM
> To: jfox at mcmaster.ca
> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist- Windows Gui (PR#10589)
> 
> jfox at mcmaster.ca wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> It's an enhancement request. We do allow those.
> 
> The idea seems sound enough: Just have the mirror selection widget
> offer
> to store the selection - er- somewhere for later use. Point being of
> course that people can never remeber what to write in which
> configuration file in which directory.
> 
> One tricky issue is whether we want the GUI to edit the Rprofile
> (probably not) or add yet another configuration file that would be
> overridden (probably not) by or override (probably not either) the
> hand-written Rprofile files....
> 
>     -p
> > 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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