[R-SIG-Mac] Upgrading RCurl version to support sftp on Mac Mavericks

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Hi Jason

After verifying curl --verion yields 7.37.0, did you re-install the
RCurl package? from the source tar.gz file?

 D.

On 7/1/14, 1:59 PM, Jason Pohl wrote:
> I want to use RCurl to do sftp requests. 
> 
> I installed the package and ran curlVersion().  It indicates version 7.30.0 and does not list "sftp" as one of the protocols. 
> 
> I installed homebrew and installed curl with ssh.  I also updated the symlinks so that /usr/bin/curl and /usr/bin/curl-config point to the newly installed package. 
> 
> When I run curl --version from the command prompt it indicates that the version is 7.37.0 and sftp IS a supported protocol.  However, when I run curlVersion() in R, it still indicates 7.30.0 
> 
> How do I get RCurl to leverage the newer version of curl? 
> 
> Mac OSX Mavericks 
> R Version 3.1.0 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> JP
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Mac mailing list
> R-SIG-Mac at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
>