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TCGAbiolinks - GDCdownload error

Hi

I'm trying to download TCGA DNA methylation data using 'GDCdownload' in 'TCGAbiolinks', but I'm getting this error message.

GDCdownload(query)

GDCdownload will download 5201 files. A total of 110.697216048 GB
Downloading as: Tue_Apr_11_09_28_55_2017.tar.gz
  |========================================================================================================| 100%
/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Download completed

Can anyone explain what went wrong?

Thank you!

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