Vince, you might also want to report capabilities()["libcurl"]
Kasper On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Martin Morgan <mtmor...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > On 08/21/2015 09:01 AM, Vincent Carey wrote: > >> install.packages works on the given machine ... seems to be latest source >> version >> >> of BiocInstaller. perhaps related to https conversion? >> > > yeah, that's what is trying to be done; I can't reproduce this. Is this > with R --vanilla or equivalent? Can you step through the following and > report output? > > con <- file(fl <- tempfile(), "a") > xx <- close(file("https://bioconductor.org")) > flush(con) > length(readLines(fl)) > > if the second line causes problems can you run the file() and close() > parts separately? > > Thanks, Martin > > > biocLite() >>> >> >> >> Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit >> >> >> 1: biocLite() >> >> 2: .isCurrentBiocInstaller() >> >> 3: .getContribUrl(biocVersion()) >> >> 4: biocinstallRepos(version = biocVersion) >> >> 5: getOption("BioC_mirror", sprintf("%s//bioconductor.org", .protocol())) >> >> 6: sprintf("%s//bioconductor.org", .protocol()) >> >> 7: .protocol() >> >> 8: close(con) >> >> 9: close.connection(con) >> >> >> Selection: 0 >> >> sessionInfo() >>> >> >> R version 3.2.2 Patched (2015-08-18 r69117) >> >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> Running under: CentOS release 6.6 (Final) >> >> >> locale: >> >> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=C >> >> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-1 >> >> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=C >> >> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C >> >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=C LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> >> attached base packages: >> >> [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils tools methods >> >> [8] base >> >> >> other attached packages: >> >> [1] knitr_1.10.5 weaver_1.35.0 codetools_0.2-14 >> >> [4] digest_0.6.8 BiocInstaller_1.19.11 >> >> >>> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> >> > > -- > Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center > 1100 Fairview Ave. N. > PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 > > Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 > Phone: (206) 667-2793 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel