This caused by the Berkeley web server setting strange content-types.
It is probably more suitable to report this to the Berkeley mirror
admin or cran maintainers.
> library(httr)
> GET("http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2";)$headers["content-type"]
$`content-type`
[1] "application/x-troff-man"
> GET("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2";)$headers["content-type"]
$`content-type`
[1] "text/plain"
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Boylan, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the Windows download page the second link is "Installation and other
> instructions" http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/windows/base/README.R-3.1.2.
> Clicking on this gets me a "download or open as" dialogue rather than a page
> of text.
>
> I think something like this happened a few years ago, and the problem was the
> MIME type of the link.
>
> It would be nice to fix.
>
> Thanks.
> Ross Boylan
>
> P.S. I was using http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/ and FF 33.1 on Win 7.
>
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