[Rd] download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default download method

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>, "R-devel at r-project.org" <r-devel at 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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Dan



> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-05 r68859)
> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> > Running under: Windows Server 2012 x64 (build 9200)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >   base
> >
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