Problems with source() function

Thank you for your answer :)

I've tested your suggestion but without success. The remote load process
is truncated silently using

	source(textConnection(readLines(url(http://...)))

when look at the contents there's not a fixed point of break, is
different each time I execute the command. Therefore the dropped lines
are different every time. It seems the only constant is the time of the
interruption (1 min 55 secs in my system).

Loading the file in a browser (it loads always complete) and examining
the text, there's no apparent malformation in the rupture points.

The longest line is 669 chars and is perfectly loaded in remote and
local mode:

	> lineas <- readLines("transcripts_moe430a.R")
	> length(lineas)
	[1] 20347
	> max(nchar(lineas))
	[1] 669
	> which(nchar(lineas)==669)
	[1] 3241
	> lineas <- readLines(url
("http://10.10.10.3:83/probefinder/scripts/probegrouper.php?chip=moe430a&mode=transcript"))
	> length(lineas)
	[1] 7471
	> max(nchar(lineas))
	[1] 669
	> which(nchar(lineas)==669)
	[1] 3242

Apparently there's a timeout in the url() or some subordinated function.
I will try to use the RCurl package but, for educational purposes, I
prefer that the load process were managed in a simply way... with an
source() for example, in order to not overload alumni with tricky
methods...

Thank you again.

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Alberto de Luis
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Lab
Cancer Research Center
Salamanca (Spain)
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Problems with source() function

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