R devel - Oct 2011 - Windows download.file sometimes pauses / truncates large files

With

C:\Users\User>R --version
R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-23 r57410)
Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

running

download.file('http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/files/E-TABM-25/E-TABM-25.raw.1.zip',
tempfile())

sometimes gets 52% (according to the dialog box) of the way through, and 
then pauses or, when running R CMD check, truncates (see 
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/ArrayExpress/moscato1-checksrc.html).

I tried options(internet.info=0, timeout=600), without effect; the 
messages from internet.info are the same on successful and failed downloads.

Thank you,

Martin
-- 
Computational Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109

Location: M1-B861
Telephone: 206 667-2793

On 10/25/2011 11:57 AM, Martin Morgan wrote:
> With
>
> C:\Users\User>R --version
> R version 2.14.0 RC (2011-10-23 r57410)
> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> running
>
>
download.file('http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/files/E-TABM-25/E-TABM-25.raw.1.zip',
> tempfile())
>
> sometimes gets 52% (according to the dialog box) of the way through, and
> then pauses or, when running R CMD check, truncates (see
>
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/ArrayExpress/moscato1-checksrc.html).
>
>
> I tried options(internet.info=0, timeout=600), without effect; the
> messages from internet.info are the same on successful and failed
> downloads.
I'll rescind this; it is not an R-specific problem.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Martin

-- 
Computational Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109

Location: M1-B861
Telephone: 206 667-2793