mirrorAdmin              package:utils              R Documentation

Managing Repository Mirrors

Description:

     Functions helping to maintain CRAN, some of them may also be
     useful for administrators of other repository networks.

Usage:

     mirror2html(mirrors = NULL, file = "mirrors.html",
       head = "mirrors-head.html", foot = "mirrors-foot.html")
     checkCRAN(method)

Arguments:

 mirrors: A data frame, by default the CRAN list of mirrors is used.

    file: A connection object or a character string.

    head: Name of optional header file.

    foot: Name of optional footer file.

  method: Download method, see 'download.file'.

Details:

     'mirror2html' creates the HTML file for the CRAN list of mirrors
     and invisibly returns the HTML text.

     'checkCRAN' performs a sanity checks on all CRAN mirrors.

