Hi,

I tried to use the given rsync command to make the mirror twice. However,
both failed, showing:

rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(515)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (112150 bytes received so far)
[generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)

Any ideas?

Thanks
Xiong

On 21 February 2012 15:54, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 21/02/2012 03:31, Xiong Deng wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working on a stand-alone Linux Redhat machine, which is disconnected
>> to outside...But I need R to be installed on the machine....
>>
>> The only way available, so far as I know, is to download all the packages
>> first and then copy to the machine and finally install them locally...
>>
>> But how can I download all the packages instead of using the
>> install.packages(....) ?
>>
>
> The simplest way is to create a local CRAN mirror, then use a file:// URL
> to refer to it.
>
> The part of CRAN you need is ca 2GB at present.  I use an rsync script
> something like
>
> rsync -rvCtL --delete --include="*.tar.gz" --include="PACKAGES*"
> --exclude="*/*" cran.r-project.org::CRAN/src/**contrib .
>
> (so as not to mirror the 16GB Archive) and access it via
> contriburl="file:///.../R/**packages/contrib"
>
>
>  Thanks
>> Xiong
>>
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