From avraham.adler at gmail.com  Wed Feb  1 09:32:15 2017
From: avraham.adler at gmail.com (Avraham Adler)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 03:32:15 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Unexpected EOF in R-patched_2017-01-30
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It worked for me at home but not at work. I will email my work the copy I
have at home. It could have been something with our connectivity or
firewall. My home copy of 1-31 is also 388b607afe732c92442dbb49845fe377.
I'll check the work ones tomorrow, or should I say later today.

Thank you,

Avi

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> >>>>> Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com>
> >>>>>     on Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:07:20 -0500 writes:
>
>     > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:30 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> On 31 Jan 2017, at 18:56 , Avraham Adler <avraham.adler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> Hello.
>     >>>
>     >>> When trying to unpack today's version of R-patched,
>     >>
>     >> From which source? The files from cran.r-project.org seems OK,
> both those in src/base-prerelease and those from ETHZ.
>
>     >> Also, is it not "tar -xfz" when reading a compressed file?
>
> Recent (for several years) versions of tar (on Linux at least)
> do not need the compression extension anymore: They guess it
> correctly from the file.
>
>     >>
>     >> -pd
>
>     >> From <https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/>
>
> The last two of the daily R-patched*.tar.gz
> unpack flawlessly for me as well.
>
> Could it be that your Windows(?) version of tar (or the file
> system or ???) is the problem?
>
> Or the file was corrupted during download?
>
> Here are the md5sum s  from the server itself for the last three snapshots:
>
> 388b607afe732c92442dbb49845fe377  ..../ftp/R/R-patched_2017-01-31.tar.gz
> 7daea59067454311818df1c75971a485  ..../ftp/R/R-patched_2017-01-30.tar.gz
> 9ddad833a455973631920c70b6da5d6e  ..../ftp/R/R-patched_2017-01-29.tar.gz
>
>
>
>     > Also, while passing z is not in the instructions given in
> Installation
>     > and Administration [1], I tried passing -xzf and it did not work. I
>     > believe f has to be last if the file name follows immediately.
>
>     > [1]  <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.
> html#Getting-the-source-files>
>
>     > Thanks,
>
>     > Avi
>
>     >>> I get the following error:
>     >>>
>     >>> C:\R>tar -xf R-patched_2017-01-30.tar.gz
>     >>>
>     >>> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>     >>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>     >>> tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
>     >>> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>     >>>
>     >>> I got the same error for R-patched_2017-01-30.tar.gz but not for
> R-3.3.2.tar.gz.
>     >>>
>     >>> Thank you,
>     >>>
>     >>> Avi
>     >>>
>     >>> ______________________________________________
>     >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
>     >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>     >> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>     >> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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>     >>
>
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[Rd] Unexpected EOF in R-patched_2017-01-30
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