[R-sig-Debian] Problems with r-cran-rcurl in Trusty and Vivid. (Re: Install R on Ubuntu with libcurl support)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 November 2015 at 09:14, Charles Plessy wrote:
| by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions in
| trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of libcurl3 instead
| of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using the CRAN
| devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug tracking
| system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).  I am not sure if the Ubuntu packages
| can be easily corrected, but if there is an interest, please let me know and I
| will try.

I usually just deploy my helper script 'install.r' (from package little in
Debian/Ubuntu and now also CRAN) as I prefer my CRAN packages to be fresh.
The sibbling script 'update.r' then refreshes installed packages against 
what is on CRAN (but knows to leave apt/dpkg installed packages alone).

Dirk

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