[R] checksums for R src file

Fri Jun 25 07:05:45 CEST 2021

Peter,

have you ever though about GPG signing them, with the armor (ASCII)
files accompanying them on the server?

el

On 2021-06-24 19:43 , peter dalgaard wrote:
> Yes, these are in the release announcements.  They are deliberately
> not kept with the actual files due to security considerations.  The
> easiest source is
> 
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2021/date.html
> 
> (because that mailing list doesn't contain much other than release
> announcements).
> 
> - Peter D.
> 
>> On 24 Jun 2021, at 17:47 , kap4lin <kap4lin using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> When I download the file,
>> https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.1.0.tar.gz (or anything
>> similar) is there a checksum for the file I can compare it to?
>>
>> Thanks
>> PK
>>
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