Warning “downloaded length != reported length” in installing packages from CRAN

Question

Searching on stackoverflow questions, I found out this link: Error in file.download when downloading custom file .

However, my case is a little bit different (I thin

Answer 1

For reference:

I am running Windows Vista, and am getting the same error for various package installs (where the download size is reported to not equal the reported length despite the numbers displayed being equal). The packages appear to install correctly, despite the reported error.

RStudio version 0.98.1091

> SysInfo()

release                                                 Vista x64
version                                build 6002, Service Pack 2

> version

platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32          
version.string R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)

My guess (without any knowledge of the internals of the install.packages code) is that while integers are being reported, they are not being compared as integers, and so throwing the error.