Running R installer: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

[Marlin-Na]

I have the following output:

Running Install scripts
Bootstrap
== 03/11/2018 12:15:41: Bootstrap: Start
== 03/11/2018 12:15:41: Adding GnuWin32 tools to PATH
== 03/11/2018 12:15:41: Setting time zone
UTC
GMT Standard Time
== 03/11/2018 12:15:41: Version: patched
== 03/11/2018 12:15:42: URL path: 
== 03/11/2018 12:15:42: Downloading R from: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-3.4.3patched-win.exe
== 03/11/2018 12:15:42: Running R installer
This command cannot be run due to the error: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
7z a failure.zip *.Rcheck\*

It seems that currently https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-3.4.3patched-win.exe returns 404. Should it be changed to https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-3.4.3-win.exe ?

[robinvanemden]

I encountered the same problem. Apparently, the R_VERSION environment variable is set to "patched" by default.

Setting R_VERSION to "release" in your appveyor.yml file seems to resolve the issue for now, though:

environment:
  R_VERSION: release

[ajdamico]

hi, if it's any clue, my travis-ci builds have suddenly all reverted to R version 3.4.2 ..so i'd bet this is related to the 3.4.4 release this week, and might resolve itself :)

[jeroen]

The r-patched branch automatically changes from R-3.4.3patched-win.exe to R-3.4.4rc-win.exe in the weeks leading up to the release. We should change the appveyor script to get the correct URL.

For now I have symlinked R-3.4.4rc-win.exe to R-3.4.3patched-win.exe so the scripts wil keep working.

[krlmlr]

Thanks, Jeroen! I wonder if running "patched" by default is really such a good choice. But then "patched" still needs to work even if we explicitly set it...

[krlmlr]

Seems we need to query if *patched-win.exe is available, and if not, look for *rc-win.exe for the next version.

[krlmlr]

@jeroen: Do you still maintain that symlink from patched to rc?