Hi Simon,

Is this Emacs/ESS specific or IntelMacs only?

Mine just returns a 404 error and lives on.

Rob

 > download.file("http://www.google.com/foo","/tmp/foo")
trying URL 'http://www.google.com/foo'
Error in download.file("http://www.google.com/foo", "/tmp/foo") :
	cannot open URL 'http://www.google.com/foo'
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
 >


On Apr 28, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Thanks, Matt.
>
> On Apr 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, mcohen@mail.la.utexas.edu wrote:
>
>> I am using the latest R (2.3) within Emacs/ESS on an iMac G5.

> ...

> Problem #2 - it shouldn't crash. Strangely enough this crash happens
> even with old builds of R as well. I have traced it down to
> localization of the HTTP code, but can't figure out why it should
> die. Minimal reproducible code is
>
> download.file("http://www.google.com/foo","/tmp/foo")

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