Thank you. I ask because our IT people have security concerns with that
functionality


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 23/01/2014 16:15, Mark Lyman wrote:
>
>> Can I build a version of R for Windows without some functionality like ftp
>> and sockets? And without some of the recommended packages? It doesn't look
>> like this can be done from the Windows install file, but if it can that
>> would nice to know too.
>>
>
> Installing the recommended packages is a documented step you can omit.
>
> Not building the Internet support means modifying Makefiles, but it would
> seem as easy to remove the internet[2].dll if you want to hobble the
> feature.
>
> OTOH, in 15 years no one has ever asked to build R without internet
> support, on any platform.
>
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