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

[peter dalgaard]

> On 06 Aug 2015, at 21:44 , Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

What does capabilities() say about libcurl?


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