Seth Falcon wrote: > Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Seth Falcon wrote: >> >>> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>> "Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? >>> >>> >> Seth, >> >> As Peter pointed out, this looks like a simple server-side issue. >> Here is the sessionInfo() from my original post. And below is the >> output of two versions of download.file. >> > > Yes, there is an issue with the BioC website (investigating) and I > didn't mean to imply otherwise. For now, as you discovered, use > http://www.bioconductor.org (note the 'www'). > > I only responded here because of the segfault you reported which most > certainly is not a simple server-side issue :-) > > Did you see the segfault with a recent R or an older one? If more > recent, then it might be worth trying to reproduce and tracking down > the bug. > Seth,
Peter was the person who reported the segmentation fault, not I. I didn't experience that behavior. And it sounds like Peter wasn't able to reproduce it, so I'm not sure there is any bug here to be fixed. Sean ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
