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

[John Kalb]

Changing urls to remove spaces and replace single quotes with double quotes
resolved the issue.  Apparently windows demands double quotes.

Thanks for your help.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> Cc'd back to the list... I am a bad bet for one-on-one help.
>
> Showing that your libcurl claims to support HTTPS is progress. I think
> that at this point you should read the last sentence in the curl FAQ 3.21,
> which I found by searching for "protocol https not supported or disabled in
> libcurl".
>
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html
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> On February 2, 2015 9:21:05 AM PST, John Kalb <john.kalb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Honestly.  I ran the search you suggested and didn't find anything that
> >helped.  I did come across the curlVersion function and ran it right
> >after
> >receiving the error message.  It seems to indicate that https is
> >available.  I don't see a way forward.
> >
> >Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  :
> >  Protocol " https" not supported or disabled in libcurl
> >> curlVersion()$protocol
> >[1] "dict"   "file"   "ftp"    "ftps"   "gopher" "http"   "https"
> >"imap"
> >  "imaps"  "ldap"
> >[11] "pop3"   "pop3s"  "rtmp"   "rtsp"   "scp"    "sftp"   "smtp"
> >"smtps"
> > "telnet" "tftp"
> >
> >On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Jeff Newmiller
> ><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> 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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