R devel - Aug 2015 - download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default download method

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

Works for me on Windows 7.  Also when I explicitly set 'method' to
"internal", "libcurl", "curl", "wininet"
and '"wget".
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-04 r68843)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.2.2

/Henrik

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:
> 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 at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

On 08.08.2015 01:11, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for letting us know. The kot recent machine I checked with is 
Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have not got problems on those. Can someone 
else rerpoduce this on Windows Server 2012?

Best,
Uwe Ligges
>
> 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 at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Uwe Ligges" <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>,
"R-devel at r-project.org" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2015 3:57:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] download.file() on ftp URL fails in windows with default
download method
> 
> 
> 
> On 08.08.2015 01:11, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks for letting us know. The kot recent machine I checked with is
> Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have not got problems on those. Can
> someone
> else rerpoduce this on Windows Server 2012?
> 
If you like I can give you temporary access (via remote desktop) to a machine in
the Amazon cloud.
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https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=&provider=&q=windows+server+2012

Dan


> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> >
> > 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 at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
> >
>