[R-pkg-devel] Does win-builder restrict where binaries can be downloaded from?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.03.2018 03:57, Jialin Ma wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have the following error on win-builder, which says the url from
> anaconda.org can not be opened. The url is valid, does win-builder
> restrict the domain where binaries can be downloaded? I have previously
> tried download from github, where it works.

It should work, but the old WinHTTP setitings on Winbuilder that 
correspond to an InternetExplorer 9 seems to be unable to talk to that 
webserver.

Perhaps you can choose another download method, e.g. via curl?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> * installing *source* package 'symengine' ...
> ** libs
> 
> *** arch - i386
> rm -f interface.o symengine.dll
> "D:/RCompile/recent/R/bin/i386/Rscript.exe" "../tools/winlibs.R"
> trying URL 'https://anaconda.org/symengine/symengine/0.3.0.353.g22cef70
> /download/win-32/symengine-0.3.0.353.g22cef70-vc14_0.tar.bz2'
> Error in download.file(link, "symenginelib.tar.bz2", quiet = FALSE) :
>    cannot open URL 'https://anaconda.org/symengine/symengine/0.3.0.353.g
> 22cef70/download/win-32/symengine-0.3.0.353.g22cef70-vc14_0.tar.bz2'
> Calls: download_symengine -> download.file
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(link, "symenginelib.tar.bz2", quiet = FALSE) :
>    InternetOpenUrl failed: 'Die Serververbindung konnte nicht
> hergestellt werden.'
> Execution halted
> make: *** [winlibs] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'symengine'
> * removing 'd:/RCompile/CRANguest/R-devel/lib/symengine'
> In R CMD INSTALL
> 
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