On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:33 PM Rasmus Liland <jensras...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-04-29 19:55 -0400, ProfJCNash wrote: > > In updating (an older computer with) Linux Mint 18.3 I tried to add > > the repository > > > > deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran40/ > > > > as per the "Download R for Linux" instructions. This gave an error > > that there was no Release.key file. > > > > After some investigation, I found that > > > > deb https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran40/ > > > > i.e., CRAN not CLOUD. With this change, I could install R 4.0. > > > > Is this a known glitch? > > Dear JN, > > perhaps it is a glitch ... does anyone run mirmon[1] on the R > mirrors to see which ones are old?
https://cran.r-project.org/mirmon_report.html > > If you open those two addresses in a browser, you see that the > xenial-cran40 folder is only present in cran case ... These are > two different servers, which can also be seen by running curl: > > rasmus@twentyfive ~ % curl -I > https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > HTTP/2 200 > content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 > date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:05:13 GMT > server: Apache/2.4.39 (Unix) > cache-control: max-age=1800 > expires: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:35:13 GMT > x-cache: Miss from cloudfront > ... > > rasmus@twentyfive ~ % curl -I > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:05:23 GMT > Server: Apache > Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 > > It is wise to point your package manager to a mirror[2] close to you > instead of a cdn, e.g. [3] or something ... > > Best, > Rasmus > > [1] https://spacehopper.org/mirmon/ > [2] https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html > [3] https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
