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Mirrors of CRAN and bioconductor

CSIRO Bioinformatics makes extensive use of the R statistical software and the Bioconductor packages. We have therefore set up local mirrors of the CRAN repository and the bioconductor repository. Due to hardware limitations these are currently only partial mirrors.

The CRAN mirror excludes Linux and Mac binaries and all versions prior to 2.2.0
The bioconductor mirror includes only the current release and is NOT a mirror of the web-site (there does not seem to be a way to do this.) The repository url is http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/bioconductor

To use this repository through the menus in windows R, you need to run

options(repos="http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/CRAN")

in R. The repos argument should also be usable in *NIX.

Bioconductor is not well set up to use mirrors at the moment, and has bioconductor.org hard-wired in several places. However, you can try adding the url to the repos variable, as in the following,

options(repos=c("http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/CRAN",
                "http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/bioconductor/bioc"))

This will work for version 2.3.* of R only.

It also looks like you can add annotation and other files using something like,

options(repos=c("http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/CRAN",
                "http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/bioconductor/bioc",
                "http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/bioconductor/data/annotation"))

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