- Original Message -
> From: "Uwe Ligges"
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" , "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:
>
On 08.08.2015 01:11, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
Hi,
url <-
"ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_01405.13.assembly.txt";
download.file(url, tempfile())
trying URL
'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_01405.13.assembly.txt'
Error in download.
Works for me on Windows 7. Also when I explicitly set 'method' to
"internal", "libcurl", "curl", "wininet" and '"wget".
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-04 r68843)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
locale:
[1] LC_COLLA
