[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:

> 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"').

A clarification, prompted by conversation with those who actually know about this: We can't "support" https: in the sense of making it work everywhere -- there are too many external entities involved, and libcurl support doesn't necessarily imply that https: works. What we have done in 3.2.2 is mainly to remove some stumbling blocks so that repositories can be accessed via https: *when that works* and ensure that there actually are HTTPS-speaking mirrors available.

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