Re: [Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

2018-05-09 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 9 May 2018 at 10:37, Tomas Kalibera wrote: | And for that reason the behavior should be as intuitive as possible when | designed. What was intuitive 15-20 years ago may not be intuitive now, | but that should probably not be a justification for a change in | documented behavior. Time for do

Re: [Rd] unlist errors on a nested list of empty lists

2018-05-09 Thread Steven Nydick
I do not have access to the bug reporting system. If somebody can get me access, I can create a formal bug report. The latter issues seem like duplicates of: https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12572 (with slightly different output), but as that bug was reported nearly 10 years ag

Re: [Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

2018-05-09 Thread peter dalgaard
There was a hint in the Twitterverse that Excel has issues with line endings in .csv. Can anyone elaborate on that? Then again, Excel goes belly-up on comma separators in central European locales anyway... -pd > On 8 May 2018, at 22:47 , Hadley Wickham wrote: > > > Also note that MS just ann

Re: [Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

2018-05-09 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 08/05/2018 4:47 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote: On 05/03/2018 11:14 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Also, as mentioned in my https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064739.html,

Re: [Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

2018-05-09 Thread Tomas Kalibera
On 05/08/2018 05:15 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 11:34 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote: On 05/03/2018 11:14 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Also, as mentioned in my https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064739.html, when not specifying the mode argument, the default on Wi