[R] reliability of R-Forge?

[Gavin Simpson]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 02:30 -0400, David Kane wrote:
> How reliable is R-Forge? http://r-forge.r-project.org/
> 
> It is down now (for me). Reporting "R-Forge Could Not Connect to Database: "
> 
> I have just started to use it for a project. It has been down for
> several hours (at least) on different occasions over the last couple
> of days. Is that common? Will it be more stable soon?
> 
> Apologies if this is not an appropriate question for R-help.
> 
> Dave Kane

In my experience, very. Although in the past few days there have been
two periods of downtime (error as you report). The resource has been
going through lots of changes over the past several months so some of
the features of R-Forge have been offline (like the full build process)
from time to time, but this is the first full outage I've been aware of
for sometime.

R-Forge hosts hundreds of projects and packages, which also attests to
general reliability.

G

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