[R] Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 28-Apr-2017 at 07:04PM +0200, peter dalgaard wrote:

|> 
|> > On 28 Apr 2017, at 12:08 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
|> > 
|> > On 28/04/2017 4:45 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
|> >> Dear Peter,
|> >> 
|> >> It actually breaks install.packages(). So it is not that innocent.
|> > 
|> > I don't think he meant that it is harmless, he meant that the fix is easy, and is in place in R-patched and R-devel.  You should use R-patched and you won't have the problem.
|> 
|> Read more carefully: I said that the _fix_ is harmless for this case, but might not be so in general.
|> 
|> -pd


Apparently it isn't harmless.  

> install.packages("withr")
Error in readRDS(dest) : error reading from connection
>

> 
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-19 r72713)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /home/hrapgc/local/R-patched/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /home/hrapgc/local/R-patched/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] grDevices utils     stats     graphics  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] lattice_0.20-35

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0    grid_3.4.0    
> 

Has anyone a workaround?

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