From sfalcon at fhcrc.org  Mon Sep  4 02:26:03 2006
From: sfalcon at fhcrc.org (Seth Falcon)
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:26:03 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Unexpected source() behavior in R-devel
In-Reply-To: <x2wt8klj76.fsf@turmalin.kubism.ku.dk> (Peter Dalgaard's message
	of "03 Sep 2006 23:43:41 +0200")
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Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> "Henrik Bengtsson" <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
>> This has been reported before on r-devel, e.g. May 9, 2006 "[Rd] Seg
>> fault when installing package from bad repository".
>> 
>> It's happening on Mac OSX when trying to download non-existing
>> webpages (HTTP status 404). That's all I know (not using OSX myself).
>
> It is not entirely obvious that it is the same problem, but it might be.
>
> This happened to me on Linux (2.3.1 on FC5), but it has only happened
> that one time. I don't think I did anything particularly strange
> earlier in that session.
>
> Of course, with 20/20 hindsight, I should have taken the core dump
> option...

I'm pretty sure this is the same issue and one that has been fixed in
R-devel.

    r38716 | ripley | 2006-07-30 00:19:35 -0700 (Sun, 30 Jul 2006) | 1 line
    Changed paths:
       M /trunk/src/modules/internet/internet.c
    
    crash workaround from Seth Falcon


Sean: can you try just download.file with a URL that gives 404?  Are
you running an R version prior to the above commit?


Bw,

+ seth




[Rd] Unexpected source() behavior in R-devel
Seth Falcon