Talk:Installing R on a Rocks Cluster

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Not entirely happy with how http proxies are handled --Ahic020@auckland.ac.nz 14:56, 19 August 2010 (NZST)

NAT settings may be too open --Ahic020@auckland.ac.nz 14:56, 19 August 2010 (NZST)

[edit] Careful with embedding scripts in xml

using '<-' in the R script embedded in xml is bad, get's parsed as a tag opening. Make sure special characters rules are used e.g. &lt

--Ahic020@auckland.ac.nz 13:59, 20 August 2010 (NZST)

[edit] selecting default CRAN mirror

Good work! It might be useful to set an environment variable in /etc/profile (in the same way as http_proxy is set) to select a preferred CRAN mirror - so that the R install package command would not pop up the question to select a default mirror. Hope that the R install manager supports that... Vladimir 11:09, 20 August 2010 (NZST)

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