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Broken links on CRAN

4 messages · Doran, Harold, Duncan Murdoch, (Ted Harding)

Doran, Harold
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Hi Duncan

I tried various ones, but try ash.pdf. I was not able to work with this
file. But, when I go to another mirror, I can open this file no problem.

Harold


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From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 3:00 PM
To: Doran, Harold
Cc: Peter Dalgaard; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Broken links on CRAN
On 12/5/2005 10:14 AM, Doran, Harold wrote:
Which packages did you have trouble with?  I just tried a couple, and
they were fine.

Duncan Murdoch
Duncan Murdoch
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On 12/5/2005 3:05 PM, Doran, Harold wrote:
Strange.  I have no problem downloading that file in Firefox, but 
Internet Explorer declares it to be damaged.

I'll let Statlib know about this, but I expect their advice will be "Use 
Firefox".

Duncan Murdoch
(Ted Harding)
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On 05-Dec-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Confirmed -- I was using Firefox too (see very recent mail to list
regarding a file comparison which showed that Harols was getting
truncated files). Your within-plot comparison of IE vs FF points
the finger much better than the between-plots trial Harold and I
carried out!

Ted.


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On 05-Dec-05 Ted Harding wrote:
However ... I just went and did the same thing (ash.pdf from
the lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN mirror) this time using IE-5 on
Windows-98 SE, as opposed to Firefox on Linux, and got the
complete file (100484 bytes just as before) which was opened
successfully in Acrobat Reader, as opposed to the truncated
file (15146 bytes) which Harold downloaded using IE-6 on Win-XP.

So this within-plot comparison now eliminates (?) Firefox vs IE
as a stand-alone factor, but may leave "version of IE" ... ???

Hmmm
Ted.


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