Hi: We are having some very strange problems with R on WIndows, both with R 2.4.1 and R 2.5.0. The following command:
> download.file(url="http://oceanwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov:8081/thredds/wcs/ > satellite/AG/ssta/14day? > request=GetCoverage&version=1.0.0&service=WCS&format=NetCDF3&coverage= > AGssta&Vertical=.0&time=2006-01-06T00:00:00Z&bbox=220,20,250,50", > destfile="junk.nc") > on my Mac downloads a netcdf file, which I can open just fine using the ncdf package, and displays just fine using the netcdf utility "ncdump -h" The same command under Windows downloads a file with that name and with the correct size. A cmp on the two files says there are differences, and using a hex editor confirms this. The file produces a simple error when using "open.ncdf" and in fact the ncdump utility produces: rmendels% /sw/bin/ncdump -h junk1.nc /sw/bin/ncdump: junk1.nc: Invalid argument There is clearly something corrupted in the Wndows version, and yet it works perfectly on my Mac. I have produced this error on two different Windows machines with two different versions of R. Any help appreciated -Roy M. ********************** "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government or NOAA." ********************** Roy Mendelssohn Supervisory Operations Research Analyst NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division Southwest Fisheries Science Center 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note new e-mail address) voice: (831)-648-9029 fax: (831)-648-8440 www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list 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.
