This idea of hijacking failed connections has been tried before and it breaks many things beyond R software and most ISPs have given up on doing this. If you, who have this "feature" at hand can figure out a reliable way to detect this then it might be "considered". However, it seems unlikely that a general solution can be found after all this time, so the better option is probably for you to disable this "feature". -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On November 1, 2017 1:52:16 PM PDT, Albrecht Kauffmann <alkau...@fastmail.fm> wrote: >Dear Duncan, > >thank you very much, that is it! Indeed, there was activated in my >internet router the "telekom navigation help". When I am (or the system >is) looking for an not existent url, this "help" opens its own website. >After deactivation of telekom navigation help, the normal message >(server not found) comes. I never gave attention to this "help", >although it is bothering sometimes; now it is switched off in my >residence. However, in Germany this problem probably frequently arises, >therefor, it should be considered in the respective code for testing R >after compilation. > >All the best, >Albrecht ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
