[Rd] Better support ESS by allowing choice of CRAN mirror using the `menu-choice` widget

[Bryce Carson]

I see, a profile option is a good idea.

I think I will tinker with the ESS package a bit regardless and see what
interesting things can be done.

On Wed., Apr. 9, 2025, 7:02 p.m. Dirk Eddelbuettel, <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 8 April 2025 at 23:15, Bryce Carson wrote:
> | I know ESS already has a better interface for installing packages, C-c
> C-e
> | TAB, but it'd be "neat" if when I forget to do this and I call
> | install.packages() without first setting a mirror that either the same
> | interface would be presented rather than Tcl/Tk, or a widget.el-based
> | interface was presented.
>
> You could avoid the issue by setting the CDN-served cloud.r-project.org
> up as
> your default. The ways CDNs work, they will always automatically find you
> the
> closest server in their network. No need to manually select.
>
> I set the following up as the default for the Debian (and hence Ubuntu,
> PopOS!, ...) package back in 2018 as part of Rprofile.site:
>
>   ## We set the cloud mirror, which is 'network-close' to everybody, as
> default
>   local({
>       r <- getOption("repos")
>       r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
>       options(repos = r)
>   })
>
> and use it personally too.
>
> In your case ESS would dispatch to R, and R would do "The Right Thing (TM)"
> as instructed.
>
> Dirk
>
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