I'm trying to debug a curious network issue, I wonder if anyone can help
me as I (and my local sysadmin) am stumped:
This base R command takes ~1 minute to complete:
readLines(url("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";))
(biocLite.R is a couple of KB in size)
Using RCurl (and so libcurl under the hood) is instantaneous (<1s):
library(RCurl)
getURL("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";)
I've not set it to use any proxies (which was my first thought) unless
libcurl autodetects them somehow... And the speed is similarly fast
using wget or curl on the command line. It just seems to be the base R
commands which are slow (including install.packages etc...).
Does anyone have hints on how to debug this (if not an answer directly)?
AlexG
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