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