[Rd] Removing cran mirrors

[Uwe Ligges]

Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> Note that with such a policy, half CRAN packages wouldn't work anymore,
>> because then we'd had "cut off" several packages away that are dependencies
>> for others etc.
>> Examples for packages we probably should "cut off" now (since they already
>> caused too much time looking at them) are:
>>
>>   clusterfly, ggplot2, lvplot, plyr
>>
>> all of them giving WARNINGS under R-2.10.0 and I guess you know the
>> miantiner who has been asked by automatical notification to fix the issues.
> 
> Hopefully this doesn't sound too self-serving, but:
> 
>  * Keeping a mirror up-to-date is _much_ easier than keeping a package
> up-to-date (i.e. you just have to run rsync regularly).

Sure, I know.


>  * I don't recall receiving any automated notices about problems, and
> I've just tried searching for combinations of R 2.10, warning and
> ggplot2 as well as several other attempts and haven't been able to
> find anything.  I normally try and keep on top of issues like this.

Great, thank you very much for your efforts. Maybe it has been eaten by 
some spam filter (because of auto-generation?). So good chance to start 
working on the issues now. ;-)

Best wishes,
Uwe




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> Hadley
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