On 06 Aug 2015, at 21:44 , Dan Tenenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought https urls were supposed to be supported in this version? The same > command works in the same version of R on linux, windows, and Mavericks > (albeit with a message on Mavericks and Linux saying 'https:// URLs are not > supported by the default method: trying "libcurl"'). A clarification, prompted by conversation with those who actually know about this: We can't "support" https: in the sense of making it work everywhere -- there are too many external entities involved, and libcurl support doesn't necessarily imply that https: works. What we have done in 3.2.2 is mainly to remove some stumbling blocks so that repositories can be accessed via https: *when that works* and ensure that there actually are HTTPS-speaking mirrors available. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
