chooseCRANmirror            package:utils            R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Interact with the user to choose a CRAN mirror.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     chooseCRANmirror(graphics = TRUE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

graphics: Logical. If true and 'tcltk' and an X server are available,
          use a Tk widget, or if under the AQUA interface use a MacOS X
          widget, otherwise use 'menu'.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The list of mirrors is stored in file
     'R_HOME/doc/CRAN_mirrors.csv'.

     This function was originally written to support a Windows GUI menu
     item, but is also called by 'contrib.url' if it finds the initial
     dummy value of 'options("repos")'.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     None.  This function is invoked for its side effect of updating
     'options("repos")'

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'setRepositories', 'contrib.url'.

