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 -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.