[Rd] CRAN links are available again

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The CRAN master has now had web/packages recreated[*], and this should 
now propagate to the mirrors.

Recreating the summary area for dcens failed, but that package remains 
available via install.packages() (as packages have always been).

[*] Thanks to Stefan Theussl.

On 31/12/2011 14:49, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Martin Maechler<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>      on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:15:10 +0100 writes:
>
>>>>>> Prof Brian Ripley<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
>>>>>>      on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:04 +0000 writes:
>
>      >>  This is not the CRAN webmaster's address[*], and the
>      >>  problem has been reported several times already to the
>      >>  proper places.  No one reading this list apart from the
>      >>  handful with CRAN administrator rights can do anything
>      >>  about this.
>
>      >>  The package repository is still there, and the check
>      >>  information is still up (via
>      >>  http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html).
>      >>  The only thing that appears to be missing is the
>      >>  web-formatted summary information.  That is secondary
>      >>  information, and it looks like the web/packages area
>      >>  needs to be regenerated.
>
>      >>  My memory is that some of the mirrors do not auto-delete,
>      >>  and so will remain populated.  I believe
>      >>  http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/ to be one of those
>      >>  and it looks intact.
>
>      >  Well, yes..  Actually, my mirroring script does
>      >  auto-deletion but "slowly": never more than a few hundred
>      >  files at a time (apart from the 'Recommended/'
>      >  subdirectories: There, it is important to delete, i.e.,
>      >  important to not have more than one version of a
>      >  recommended package .. for our tools/rsync-recommended
>      >  script )
>
> In the mean time, I have
>   - changed my mirror script to *NOT* delete anything for now
>   - rsync'ed (-u: do not overwrite newer)
>     a backup of web/packages/ from  2011-12-29 12:20:29
>
> This has recovered 76 Mega bytes already..
> Now indeed,  the CH mirror should contain a full web/packages/
> again,
> i.e. -->   http://cran.CH.r-project.org/web/packages/
> which is  http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/
>
> should again be "fully loaded".
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
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