On 3 July 2015 at 10:24, Paul Gilbert wrote:
| The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
| list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
| dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
| example, it would add a system depe
My downloader package was created to deal with https on various platforms:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/downloader/index.html
The package dates back to before R had libcurl support. It's very
simple: if you're on Windows, it uses setInternet2(), which enable
https support, and if you'r
The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
example, it would add a system dependency on libcurl and an R package
dependency on curl
In random, I do the following, using R 3.2.0 or later with libcurl where
installed, and Jeroen's lightweight curl::curl otherwise.
getConnection <- function(urltxt, ...) {
if (getRversion() >= "3.2.0" && capabilities()["libcurl"]) {
url(urltxt, ..., method="libcurl")
} else {
On 07/02/2015 11:52 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 03/07/2015 5:24 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
From R 3.2.0, check:
capabilities("libcurl")
libcurl
TRUE
TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
FALSE, make sure lib
On 03/07/2015 5:24 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
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>
> On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> From R 3.2.0, check:
>>
>>> capabilities("libcurl")
>> libcurl
>> TRUE
>>
>> TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
>> FALSE, make sure libcurl is available when/if y
On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
From R 3.2.0, check:
capabilities("libcurl")
libcurl
TRUE
TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
FALSE, make sure libcurl is available when/if you build R from source.
I do have TRUE for this. The default behav
Hi Paul,
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> (This problem with download.file() affects quantmod, and possibly several
> other packages. e.g. getSymbols('M2',src='FRED') fails.)
>
Thanks for the note. I'm aware of this, and actually wanted to ask
this list what the "best practi
