[R] source a script file straight from a subversion repository

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "SM" == Steven McKinney <smckinney at bccrc.ca>
>>>>>     on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:38:54 -0700 writes:

    SM> Thanks to Duncan Murdoch and Marc Schwartz for their
    SM> excellent help.

    SM> As we don't yet have the apache http: interface to svn
    SM> running yet, 'svn export' is the access mechanism.

yes.
Note that svn.r-project.org for the R sources (and some
recommended packages' ones) *only* runs the apache secure http
interface  'https:/.........'  for security reasons.

It has the big advantage that there exist no (!) user logins on
that machine at all, and hence no compromised user ssh
information can be misused to break in.

*and* you can use source(...)!

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich