Works for me on Windows 7. Also when I explicitly set 'method' to "internal", "libcurl", "curl", "wininet" and '"wget".
> sessionInfo() R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-04 r68843) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.2.2 /Henrik On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> url <- >> "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt" >> download.file(url, tempfile()) > trying URL > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt' > Error in download.file(url, tempfile()) : > cannot open URL > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/ASSEMBLY_REPORTS/All/GCF_000001405.13.assembly.txt' > In addition: Warning message: > In download.file(url, tempfile()) : InternetOpenUrl failed: '' > > If I set method="curl" it works fine. This was on R-3.2.2-beta (sessionInfo() > below) but I got the same results in R-3.2.1 and R-devel. > > This does not happen on Windows Server 2008 but it happens on Windows Server > 2012. > > Dan > >> sessionInfo() > R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-05 r68859) > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > Running under: Windows Server 2012 x64 (build 9200) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel