My test may not have been entirely right, but it looks like the PACKAGES.gz file for windows binary packages for R-3.2.x was a quarter of its usual size on Nov 5-6, 2015. It is now fine. I used Revolution's daily CRAN snapshots to check. mran.revolutionanalytics.com/snapshot/YYYY-MM-DD
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > wrote: > Bill, > > thanks for reporting, this is currently true for all PACKAGES.gz files my > autobuilder is creating, will investigate. > > Best, > Uwe > > > > On 06.11.2015 18:54, William Dunlap wrote: > >> Is it just me, or did a corrupt PACKAGES.gz file get installed in the >> bin/windows/contrib/3.2 directory of CRAN mirrors recently? gzfile() >> complains about it and Cygwin's gzip cannot decompress it. I tried the >> following >> >> repos <- "https://cran.rstudio.com"; >> v <- "3.2" >> pkgs.gz <- paste(sep="/", repos, "bin/windows/contrib", v, "PACKAGES.gz") >> >> tfile <- tempfile(fileext=".gz") >> download.file(pkgs.gz, dest=tfile) >> r.gz <- readLines(gzfile(tfile, "r")) >> tail(system(paste("c:\\cygwin\\bin\\gzip -d - ", shQuote(tfile)), >> intern=TRUE)) >> >> and got >> >> repos <- "https://cran.rstudio.com"; >>> v <- "3.2" >>> pkgs.gz <- paste(sep="/", repos, "bin/windows/contrib", v, "PACKAGES.gz") >>> >>> tfile <- tempfile(fileext=".gz") >>> download.file(pkgs.gz, dest=tfile) >>> >> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/PACKAGES.gz' >> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 188174 bytes (183 KB) >> downloaded 183 KB >> >> r.gz <- readLines(gzfile(tfile, "r")) >>> >> Warning message: >> In readLines(gzfile(tfile, "r")) : >> seek on a gzfile connection returned an internal error >> >>> tail(system(paste("c:\\cygwin\\bin\\gzip -d - ", shQuote(tfile)), >>> >> intern=TRUE)) >> [1] "" "gzip: stdin: unexpected end of >> file" >> Warning message: >> running command 'c:\cygwin\bin\gzip -d - >> "C:\Users\wdunlap\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpG42jk4\file2a201a9e4802.gz"' >> had >> status 1 >> >> R's gz code seems to recover from the bad seek, but Cygwin's gzip cannot. >> >> pkgs <- paste(sep="/", repos, "bin/windows/contrib", v, "PACKAGES") >>> r <- readLines(url(pkgs, "rt")) >>> all.equal(r, r.gz) >>> >> [1] TRUE >> >> I get the same results using the Spanish miror, https://ftp.cixug.es/CRAN >> >> >> Bill Dunlap >> TIBCO Software >> wdunlap tibco.com >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
