subject:"\[R\] RCurl much faster than base R"

Re: [R] RCurl much faster than base R

2014-12-09 Thread Martin Morgan

On 12/05/2014 08:12 AM, Alex Gutteridge wrote: I'm trying to debug a curious network issue, I wonder if anyone can help me as I (and my local sysadmin) am stumped: This base R command takes ~1 minute to complete: readLines(url("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)) (biocLite.R is a couple of

[R] RCurl much faster than base R

2014-12-05 Thread Alex Gutteridge

I'm trying to debug a curious network issue, I wonder if anyone can help me as I (and my local sysadmin) am stumped: This base R command takes ~1 minute to complete: readLines(url("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)) (biocLite.R is a couple of KB in size) Using RCurl (and so libcurl under