[R] download extremely slow
Jeff Newmiller
jdnewmil at dcn.davis.CA.us
Sun May 6 04:31:54 CEST 2012
I have been having problems getting recent packages from Berkeley for Windows and Linux, so I have had to change to UCLA anyway.
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Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Hillary Sardiñas <herongreen at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> I have been trying to download the latest version to my Macbook X
>version
>> 10.6.8 from my institutions mirror http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu
>> Usually is only takes minutes, but regardless of the browser or where
>I
>> connect to the internet I have been unable to download because it
>would
>> take upwards 2 days according to the download dialogue box.
>> I'd really like to get the newest version to run some new packages
>that
>> don't seem to work well in what I have currently (2.12.1)
>> I had the same problem last time I tried to update ~ 3 weeks ago.
>> Who should I contact/what should I do?
>
>You can always try another CRAN mirror. But it doesn't look like a
>problem with the Berkeley CRAN server:
>
>wget http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/base/R-latest.pkg
>% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
>Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
>100 64.1M 100 64.1M 0 0 11.1M 0 0:00:05 0:00:05
>--:--:-- 11.1M
>
>Most likely something with your computer.
>
>/Henrik
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Hillary Sardiñas
>> PhD Candidate
>> Environmental Science, Policy & Management
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> http://nature.berkeley.edu/kremenlab/hillary.html
>>
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