On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

>
> It is up to you to set a default mirror: we have little idea where you
> live (and it may not be where your email address suggests).  Geolocation
> of mirrors had been mooted but not implemented (and in a corporate
> setting is not 100% reliable).  The whole point of mirrors is to spread
> the load: without them there would be no CRAN as the main host would not
> allow the traffic.
>
>
The RStudio CRAN mirror uses Amazon's CDN to achieve a degree of geographic
convenience:

http://blog.rstudio.org/2013/06/10/rstudio-cran-mirror/

 As far as I know all the other CRAN mirrors are geographically nailed down
and your data will come out of that server in that data centre wherever you
and it may be.

Barry

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