[R-SIG-Mac] invalid digital signature for R-3.1.0-mavericks

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Two possibilities from 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11958643/how-do-i-prevent-the-the-package-was-signed-with-an-invalid-certificate-warnin 
:

1) Your security settings might allow only downloads from the App Store 
(look at System Preferences | Security & Privacy | General).

2) Your certificate chain is broken.

Also, check your OS is fully updated: some googling shows Apple updates 
as a cause for similar problems.

On 12/05/2014 13:48, Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade R from 3.0.3 to 3.1 on MacBookPro Mavericks 10.9.2.
> After downloading R-3.1.0-mavericks.pkg from http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/ and
> clicking it, I get the following error message:
>
> "R-3.1.0-mavericks.pkg can't be installed because its digital signature is
> invalid".
>
> I checked the md5 signature with md5sum and it matches that found on the

Again: that is not a signature: it is a 'hash' or 'checksum' or 'digest'.

> download page. I also tried re-downloading the package from different
> mirror sites and I get the same error. I also tried R-3.1.0-snowleopard.pkg
> but I got the following error:
>
> "This package was signed with an invalid certificate. This package might
> not install what you expect."
>
> But unlike the mavericks.pkg, the snowleopard.pkg provides me the option to
> continue the install in spite of the warning.
>
> Why am I getting these 'invalid' warnings? How do I securely and properly
> install R 3.1 on my Mac that is running Mavericks? It is strange that just
> a few weeks ago, I did not have these problems installing R 3.0.3.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
>
> Paul
>
> P.S. I originally posted this email here
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2014-May/374522.html
>
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