[R] download.file error - corrupt: Can't read SAT; charset=binary'

[Uwe Ligges]

Tal,

please quote the whole message!
I had to look for the original one now.

And then I found that code was not reproducible for me:

  exe_URL = 'http://pandoc.googlecode.com/files/pandoc-1.11.1.msi'
  exe_filename <- file.path(tempdir(), file.name.from.url(exe_URL))

Error in file.path(tempdir(), file.name.from.url(exe_URL)) :
   could not find function "file.name.from.url"

and I do not know such a function. From its name I can guess

  basename(exe_URL)

is the base function that does the trick.

So please specify full and reproducible code that shows the error, 
including and does not contain any additional quirks like the mode="w"....


Anyway, the installer works for me downloaded with the method I 
indicated before.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




On 22.08.2013 07:23, Tal Galili wrote:
> Dear Uwe,
> My apologies - my original code had mode="wb", which also *does not* work
> and produce the errors I've mentioned in the previous e-mail.
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> The code I pasted had mode ="w", since that is one of the versions I've
> played with (which also does not work).
>
>   With regards,
> Tal
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> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Uwe Ligges <
> ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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>> Uwe
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