On Jan 1, 2008 12:36 PM, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thank you, Henrik! This saves us a lot of time!
>
> Uwe
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> Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> > On 01/01/2008, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Also make sure the problem is not due to downloading a gzip file in
> >> text m
Thank you, Henrik! This saves us a lot of time!
Uwe
Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On 01/01/2008, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Also make sure the problem is not due to downloading a gzip file in
>> text mode, because to the best of my understanding that is platform
>> dependent. Th
On 01/01/2008, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also make sure the problem is not due to downloading a gzip file in
> text mode, because to the best of my understanding that is platform
> dependent. That is, use download.file(..., mode="wb") instead of the
> default, which is mode="w"
Also make sure the problem is not due to downloading a gzip file in
text mode, because to the best of my understanding that is platform
dependent. That is, use download.file(..., mode="wb") instead of the
default, which is mode="w". (This is such a common error that I would
like to suggest mode="
I see. It is either a bug or something related to the following
paragraph from ?seek:
We have found so many errors in the Windows implementation of file
positioning that users are advised to use it only at their own
risk, and asked not to waste the R developers' time with bug
Sorry, Uwe. Of course:
Both in relatively recent R-devel (one mac, one windows):
### gunzip pulled from R.utils to be a simple function
### In R.utils, implemented as a method
gunzip <- function(filename, destname=gsub("[.]gz$", "", filename),
overwrite=FALSE, remove=TRUE, BFR.SIZE=1e7) {
if (
Can you give a reproducible example, pelase?
Uwe Ligges
Sean Davis wrote:
> I have been trying to use the gunzip function in the R.utils package. It
> opens a connection to a gzfile, uses readBin to read from that connection,
> and then uses writeBin to write out the raw data to a new file. Th
I have been trying to use the gunzip function in the R.utils package. It
opens a connection to a gzfile, uses readBin to read from that connection,
and then uses writeBin to write out the raw data to a new file. This works
as expected under linux/mac, but under Windows, I get:
Error in readBin(i
