[R] How to enable https for R 3.1.2 on windows 8.1

[Jeff Newmiller]

Honestly? Did you try "rcurl https windows" (without the quotes)?
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On February 1, 2015 8:56:00 AM PST, John Kalb <john.kalb at gmail.com> wrote:
>I run the code below successfully on Mac and Ubuntu successfully.
>When I run on Windows, I get the results shown.  How do I get the code
>to work on Windows? I've googled extensively with no success. Thanks
>in advance.
>
>require(twitteR)
>
>Loading required package: twitteR
>Loading required package: ROAuth
>Loading required package: RCurl
>Loading required package: bitops
>Loading required package: rjson
>> cred <- OAuthFactory $ new( consumerKey = my.key, consumerSecret =
>my.secret, requestURL =' https:// api.twitter.com/ oauth/
>request_token', accessURL =' https:// api.twitter.com/ oauth/
>access_token', authURL =' https:// api.twitter.com/ oauth/ authorize')
>> cred$handshake(cainfo = "C:/users/john/documents/twitter/cacert.pem")
>Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  :
>  Protocol " https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
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