search for: httpget

Full_Name: Barry Rowlingson Version: 1.7.0 OS: RH8/Mandrake 9.1 Submission from: (NULL) (194.80.32.8) internet.R in the tests directory hangs during 'make check' if an http proxy is needed for http access from the machine. This happens in the httpget function defined therein. It tries to make a direct socket connection to port 80 of a remote machine, and if local network policy does not permit that, then the test can hang. A fix? Perhaps skip that test if Sys.getenv("http_proxy") is defined. Or rewrite httpget to use the proxy if d...

I'm trying to build R on RedHat EL4. The compile went fine, but a make check ran into a problem and produced a file "internet.Rout.fail". Judging by the last part of that file, it was trying to run an R routine called "httpget" to retrieve the URL http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch11b.dat. The precise error it encountered was: Error in strsplit(grep("Content-Length", b, value = TRUE), ":")[[1]] : subscript out of bounds So, it looks like the data it read from that URL was no...

I really appreciate all your responses on this. I might not have fixed it by looking at samba logs but i noticed there was directory in user unix directory with wildcard * as folder name once i removed it, samba showed up all the files and directory. am not sure what would * as folder name caused this behaviour may be samba was trying to interpret * as something else not sure...... or it was

Hola! I'm trying to make r-devel on windows XP. I downloaded an hour ago R-1.7.0beta_2003-03-30.tar.gz make terminates without any error messages, with make check I get error messages from tests of internet and socket functions, surely because my modem was not connected (It doesn't say in the documentation (file INSTALL) that internet must be connected under make check.) But the file