[rkward-tracker] [ rkward-Feature Requests-2991643 ] Fix the whole CRAN mirror issue

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Feature Requests item #2991643, was opened at 2010-04-24 00:12
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Category: General
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 3
Private: No
Submitted By: P Kapat (kapatp)
Assigned to: P Kapat (kapatp)
Summary: Fix the whole CRAN mirror issue

Initial Comment:
Eventually, the following things will need to be taken care of (not a bug, but an eyesore ;) ):

If repos == '@CRAN@' and 'Fetch list' is called from either Install or Update tabs of Configure Packages then the same old Tcl/Tk menu is shown. To fix this, fix the available.packages() call in .rk.cached.available.packages(). Basically, check if repos == '@CRAN@' and call rk.select.CRAN.mirror(); set the repos and then call available.packages().

3. Add the base CRAN mirror: "http://cran.r-project.org" (an Austrian server) to the chooseCRANmirror() list. May be even set this as the default, if none is selected?

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>Comment By: P Kapat (kapatp)
Date: 2010-04-25 01:52

Message:
Yes, you are right. My wording was wrong, the menu is RKWard native. My
intention was the lack of extended information.

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Comment By: Thomas Friedrichsmeier (tfry)
Date: 2010-04-24 04:50

Message:
"the same old Tcl/Tk menu is shown"

Are you sure? For me it's the new RKWard native menu. You can
differentiate the two by the window icon. If it's an RKWard one, it's ours,
if it's a plain X11, it's the tcl-menu. Also, you would see a message
"Loading Tcl/Tk interface" for the tcl-menu.

Of course either way it does not provide the extended information about
the mirrors. The most central place to fix this would be in
chooseCRANmirror() (which is a bit difficult to override, but see the
bottom section of internal.R, where we replace menu() and select.list()).

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