[R-pkg-devel] CRAN repo mirror down? http://cran.us.r-project.org

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 February 2020 at 08:45, Daniel Sjoberg wrote:
| I have a few continuous integration sites set up (e.g. Travis CI) to check
| packages I've written. To install packages I've used `install.packages(...,
| repo = "http://cran.us.r-project.org").  All the CI checks began failing
| last week because the site  http://cran.us.r-project.org is no longer
| available.  It's been down for almost a week.  Has the site been retired?
| Do I need to update the CI code for all my packages, or can I wait it out
| until it is back online?

I would switch to  https://cloud.r-project.org  which is actually a CDN and
hence 'always there' and 'always network close'.

The older-school DNS aliases like the one you use there can come and go.

Dirk

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