I am working on a reproducible computing platform for which I would like to
be able to _exactly_ reproduce an R object. However, I am experiencing
unexpected randomness in some calculations. I have a hard time finding out
exactly how it occurs. The code below illustrates the issue.
mylm1 <- lm(di
According to the download.file manual the timeout of a connection can be set
using options(timeout=10). This seems to work as expected on windows, but on
linux the connection does not timeout. I reproduced the problem both 0on
R-2.13 on Ubuntu and on R-2.12.1 on CentOS, but not in Windows.
> optio
