Error in unserialize(con) : unknown input format - r

I am downloading a file from Azure to a connection. The download appears to go through but unserializing gives an error. Any ideas what may be going wrong or how to go about debugging?
con <- rawConnection(raw(0), "r+")
storage_download(AzureContainer, src="sourcefile.fst", dest=con)
unserialize(con)
Error in unserialize(con) : unknown input format

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Summary:
Add the argument cellres=1 to your function call and you should be fine.
Answer:
The second error you saw--Warning message: In rep(cellres, length = 2) : 'x' is NULL so the result will be NULL--is because you haven't set the cellres argument and, as a result, "cellres" assumes its default value (i.e. 'NULL'--hence the warning). For what you're working on, setting the cellres argument to 1 will do the trick (though you can pass in a two-element vector with unequal values and see just how it affects your figure by plotting the resulting object).
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For the file mtrush1.pgm, you can download it from http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/181050
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/193625
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),
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error = function(e) {
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