Re: [Rd] cannot connect to an FTP server with long HELLO message

2010-10-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The example works for me (eventually: the site was very slow to respond) --- nanoftp reads the response in 1024 byte chunks and makes sense of it. We do provide debugging facilites via, say, options(internet.info=0, warn=1, warning.length=4000) which may help you debug this. Simply fiddling

Re: [Rd] cannot connect to an FTP server with long HELLO message

2010-10-26 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, On 10/26/2010 02:01 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: The example works for me (eventually: the site was very slow to respond) --- nanoftp reads the response in 1024 byte chunks and makes sense of it. We do provide debugging facilites via, say, options(internet.info=0, warn=1,

[Rd] cannot connect to an FTP server with long HELLO message

2010-10-22 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, Trying to access files on the ftp server at ftp.ncbi.nih.gov will either give a time out or sometimes even a segfault on Linux. The 2 following methods give the same results: f - url(ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/SOFT/GDS/GDS10.soft.gz;, open=r)