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

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter dalgaard" <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
> Cc: "r-sig-mac" <r-sig-mac at r-project.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2015 12:57:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] source() command and HTTPS urls in R-3.2.2 beta
> 
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> > 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?
> 

FALSE.
Dan


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