>>>>> "DM" == Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:07:23 -0400 writes:
DM> On 26/08/2015 6:04 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fredhutch.org>
wrote:
>>>
>>> actually I don't know that it does -- it addresses the symptom but I
think there should be an error from libcurl on the 403 / 404 rather than from
read.dcf on error page...
>>
>> Indeed, the only correct behavior is to turn the protocol error code
>> into an R exception. When the server returns a status code >= 400, it
>> indicates that the request was unsuccessful and the response body does
>> not contain the content the client had requested, but should instead
>> be interpreted as an error message/page. Ignoring this fact and
>> proceeding with parsing the body as usual is incorrect and leads to
>> all kind of strange errors downstream.
DM> Yes. I haven't been following this long thread. Is it only in R-devel,
DM> or is this happening in 3.2.2 or R-patched?
DM> If the latter, please submit a bug report. If it is only R-devel,
DM> please just be patient. When R-devel becomes R-alpha next year, if the
DM> bug still exists, please report it.
DM> Duncan Murdoch
Probably I'm confused now...
Both R-patched and R-devel give an error (after a *long* wait!)
for
download.file("https://someserver.com/mydata.csv";, "mydata.csv")
So that problem is I think solved now.
Ideally, it would nice to set the *timeout* as an R function
argument ourselves.. though.
Kevin Ushey's original problem however is still in R-patched and
R-devel:
ap <- available.packages("http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";, method="libcurl")
ap
giving
> ap <- available.packages("http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";,
> method="libcurl")Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin:
Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!
> ap
Package Version Priority Depends Imports LinkingTo Suggests Enhances
License License_is_FOSS License_restricts_use OS_type Archs
MD5sum NeedsCompilation File Repository
>
and the resulting 'ap' is the same as e.g., with the the default
method which also gives a warning and then an empty list (well
"data.frame") of packages.
I don't see a big problem with the above.
It would be better if the warning did not contain the extra
"Line starting '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLI ...' is malformed!"
part, but apart from that I'd say the behavior is not bogous:
We ask for the available package get as answer 'zero packages'
which is correct.
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