Hi, everybody I'm setting up a new CRAN mirror and filled up the disk space the server allotted me. I asked for more, then filled that up. Now the system administrators want me to buy an $800 fiber channel card and a storage device. I'm going to do that, but it does make want to suggest to you that this is a problem.
CRAN now is about 68GB, and about 3/4 of that is in the bin folder, where one finds copies of compiled packages for macosx and windows. If the administrators of CRAN would move the packages for R before, say, 2.12, to long term storage, then mirror management would be a bit more, well, manageable. Moving the R for windows packages for, say, R 2.0 through 2.10 would save some space, and possibly establish a useful precedent for the long term. Here's the bin/windows folder. Note it is expanding exponentially (or nearly so) $ du --max-depth=1 | sort 1012644 ./2.6 103504 ./1.7 122200 ./1.8 1239876 ./2.7 1487024 ./2.8 15220 ./ATLAS 167668 ./1.9 17921604 . 1866196 ./2.9 204392 ./2.0 2207708 ./2.10 2340120 ./2.13 2356272 ./2.12 2403176 ./2.11 298620 ./2.1 364292 ./2.2 438044 ./2.3 595920 ./2.4 698064 ./2.5 -- -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
