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

[Daniel Sjoberg]

Thank you for the input!  Looks like it's time to update.   I was hoping I
could wait it out and the former site would come back online. :|

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 8:53 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]