[R] CRAN master, R-Forge, R-Project websites down

[Peter Dalgaard]

(Resending, forgot to cc. r-help)

On Apr 26, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Stefan Peter Theußl wrote:

> Dear R users and developers,
> 
> Due to a failure of the electrical system, the IT services (also hosting R-project related websites) of the WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) are currently unavailable. 
> 
> Affected websites and services are: CRAN master (cran.r-project.org), the R-project website (www.r-project.org) and R-Forge (r-forge.r-project.org). 
> 
> The R binaries and sources as well as packages can still be downloaded by any CRAN mirrors distributed all over the world. Please select a different mirror than "Austria" in R (GUI).
> 
> We apologize for any inconvenience.

Actually, it's a bit worse, because many CRAN sites are aliased to wu-wien, which does the redirection (I suppose the reason is that the mirror sites don't do virtual hosts). E.g., for cran.dk.r-project.org, you currently need to know that the server is actually http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cran/ or get stuck waiting for a response from Vienna. There seems to be similar issues with the UK and DE (and IT and CH and...) mirrors, but not with the US one. 

-p

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> Stefan Theussl
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Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com