From mtmorgan at fhcrc.org  Tue Oct 25 22:37:10 2011
From: mtmorgan at fhcrc.org (Martin Morgan)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:37:10 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Windows download.file sometimes pauses / truncates large
 files
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On 10/25/2011 11:57 AM, Martin Morgan wrote:
> With
>
> C:\Users\User>R --version
> R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-23 r57410)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> running
>
> download.file('http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/files/E-TABM-25/E-TABM-25.raw.1.zip',
> tempfile())
>
> sometimes gets 52% (according to the dialog box) of the way through, and
> then pauses or, when running R CMD check, truncates (see
> http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/ArrayExpress/moscato1-checksrc.html).
>
>
> I tried options(internet.info=0, timeout=600), without effect; the
> messages from internet.info are the same on successful and failed
> downloads.

I'll rescind this; it is not an R-specific problem.

>
> Thank you,
>
> Martin


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[Rd] Windows download.file sometimes pauses / truncates large files
Martin Morgan