[R] CRAN mirror - how many amount?

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

Lukasz Komsta wrote on 4/21/2005 10:54 AM:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I have just read http://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html, but there 
> is no information what amount of disk space is enough to download 
> complete CRAN copy and setup a mirror. Is there any person informed here?
> 
> Regards,
> 

Others might correct me, but I believe you can do the following (on Linux):

rsync -nrtlvz cran.r-project.org::CRAN | grep "total"

where -n does a dry run. When I did this, I got 5,116,091,154 bytes (or 
~5GB).

HTH,

--sundar