[R] Error in readRDS(dest) (was Re: Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows)

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 22-May-2017 at 05:43AM -0400, Martin Morgan wrote:

|> On 05/22/2017 05:10 AM, Patrick Connolly wrote:

|> >Apparently it isn't harmless.
|> >
|> >>install.packages("withr")
|> >Error in readRDS(dest) : error reading from connection
|> 
|> that seems like a plain-old network connectivity issue, or perhaps
|> an issue with the CRAN mirror you're using. Can you debug on your
|> end, e.g,.
|> 
|>   options(error=recover)
|>   install.packages("withr")
|>   ...
|> 
|> then select the 'frame' where the error occurs, look around
|> 
|>   ls()
|> 
|> find the value of 'dest', and e.g., try to open dest in your  browser.

This is what I get

>   options(error=recover)
>   install.packages("withr")
^C

Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit   

1: install.packages("withr")
2: available.packages(contriburl = contriburl, method = method)
3: tryCatch({
    download.file(url = paste0(repos, "/PACKAGES.rds"), destfile
4: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1]])
6: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
7: download.file(url = paste0(repos, "/PACKAGES.rds"), destfile = dest, method

Selection: 7
Called from: eval(substitute(browser(skipCalls = skip), list(skip = 7 - which)), 
    envir = sys.frame(which))
Browse[1]> dest
Error during wrapup: object 'dest' not found

That indicates to me that the problem is further back but I have no
idea how make use of that information.


Browse[1]> ls()
[1] "cacheOK"  "destfile" "extra"    "method"   "mode"     "quiet"    "url"     
Browse[1]> url
[1] "http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz/src/contrib/PACKAGES.rds"
Browse[1]> destfile
[1] "/tmp/RtmpplJSrB/repos_http%3A%2F%2Fcran.stat.auckland.ac.nz%2Fsrc%2Fcontrib.rds"
Browse[1]> 

The destfile above is zero-length and I suppose is where dest is
intended to end up.

Where else should I be looking?  Earlier installations never had this
issue so I don't have anything to compare.

TIA
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