Ah wow, that answers many questions, thanks! On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:41 PM Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> AFAIK this receiver-side responsibility to specify the text/binary status > of the file is particularly a problem with the "ftp://"; protocol because > it does not use MIME file encoding (which "http://"; uses). MIME allows > the sending end of the connection to communicate whether the file is text > or binary, though it uses more bandwidth for the transfer. If the server > offers you a choice in these days of high bandwidth connections, you may be > better off sticking with http/https. > > Note that MIME is not magic... if the sender is improperly configured then > the client can potentially receive corrupt data. Fortunately the most > typical MIME misconfigurations cause the file to be unchanged in all cases, > leaving it to the receiver to deal with any text file newline decoding > choice/task after the file transfer is completed. > > On December 6, 2018 7:03:48 AM PST, Duncan Murdoch < > murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 06/12/2018 7:45 AM, Kate Stone wrote: > >> Hello r-help, > >> > >> Could you help me determine whether this is an R bug or not? > >> > >> I've been trying to read this binary file in R: > >> > >> > >download.file(" > ftp://ftp.fieldtriptoolbox.org/pub/fieldtrip/tutorial/preprocessing_erp/s04.eeg > ","s04.eeg") > >> > >> and I get a different length file (i.e. much longer) in Windows >= 8 > >> x64 (build 9200) than in Ubuntu. I've tested it with different R > >> versions in Windows and different package versions with the same > >> incorrect result. Other colleagues have tested it on the same > >> Windows/Ubuntu builds and got the correct length. > >> > >> I'm not sure whether this is an R problem or something to do with my > >> OS specifically, or even with the file itself. Any ideas?? I've > >> attached a small script demonstrating the issue. > > > >On Windows, the `mode = "wb"` argument to download.file() is important, > > > >otherwise it is assumed to be a text file, and LF is changed to CR LF. > >There may also be handling of EOF marks, I forget. > > > >Duncan Murdoch > > > >______________________________________________ > >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. > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > -- Kate Stone PhD candidate Vasishth Lab | Department of Linguistics Potsdam University, 14467 Potsdam, Germany https://auskate.github.io [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
