----- Original Message ----- > From: "Uwe Ligges" <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtene...@fredhutch.org>, "R-devel@r-project.org" > <r-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 3:57:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Rd] download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default > download method > > > > On 08.08.2015 01:11, Dan Tenenbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> url <- > >> "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt"; > >> download.file(url, tempfile()) > > trying URL > > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt' > > Error in download.file(url, tempfile()) : > > cannot open URL > > > > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt' > > In addition: Warning message: > > In download.file(url, tempfile()) : InternetOpenUrl failed: '' > > > > If I set method="curl" it works fine. This was on R-3.2.2-beta > > (sessionInfo() below) but I got the same results in R-3.2.1 and > > R-devel. > > > > This does not happen on Windows Server 2008 but it happens on > > Windows Server 2012. > > > Thanks for letting us know. The kot recent machine I checked with is > Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have not got problems on those. Can > someone > else rerpoduce this on Windows Server 2012? >
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