From avraham.adler at gmail.com  Tue Jan 31 22:07:20 2017
From: avraham.adler at gmail.com (Avraham Adler)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:07:20 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Unexpected EOF in R-patched_2017-01-30
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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?
>
> -pd

>From <https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/>

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
>>
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[Rd] Unexpected EOF in R-patched_2017-01-30
Avraham Adler