Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seth Falcon wrote: >> Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> "Henrik Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> >>>> This has been reported before on r-devel, e.g. May 9, 2006 "[Rd] Seg >>>> fault when installing package from bad repository". >>>> >>>> It's happening on Mac OSX when trying to download non-existing >>>> webpages (HTTP status 404). That's all I know (not using OSX myself). >>>> >>> It is not entirely obvious that it is the same problem, but it might be. >>> >>> This happened to me on Linux (2.3.1 on FC5), but it has only happened >>> that one time. I don't think I did anything particularly strange >>> earlier in that session. >>> >>> Of course, with 20/20 hindsight, I should have taken the core dump >>> option... >>> >> >> I'm pretty sure this is the same issue and one that has been fixed in >> R-devel. >> >> r38716 | ripley | 2006-07-30 00:19:35 -0700 (Sun, 30 Jul 2006) | 1 line >> Changed paths: >> M /trunk/src/modules/internet/internet.c >> crash workaround from Seth Falcon >> >> >> Sean: can you try just download.file with a URL that gives 404? Are >> you running an R version prior to the above commit? >> > Seth, > > As Peter pointed out, this looks like a simple server-side issue. > Here is the sessionInfo() from my original post. And below is the > output of two versions of download.file.
Yes, there is an issue with the BioC website (investigating) and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. For now, as you discovered, use http://www.bioconductor.org (note the 'www'). I only responded here because of the segfault you reported which most certainly is not a simple server-side issue :-) Did you see the segfault with a recent R or an older one? If more recent, then it might be worth trying to reproduce and tracking down the bug. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
