[R-SIG-Mac] source() command and HTTPS urls in R-3.2.2 beta

[Dan Tenenbaum]

Hi, using the sessionInfo() below I got the following error:

> source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) : 
  https:// URLs are not supported

This is the CRAN binary build of R-3.2.2 beta for Snow Leopard.

I thought https urls were supposed to be supported in this version? The same command works in the same version of R on linux, windows, and Mavericks (albeit with a message on Mavericks and Linux saying 'https:// URLs are not supported by the default method: trying "libcurl"').

Maybe a misconfiguration in the way that the binary was built for Snow Leopard?

Thanks,
Dan



> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.2 beta (2015-08-05 r68859)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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