On 12/07/2015 6:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 12/07/2015 5:15 PM, Arthur Vigil wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I see that https CRAN mirrors are starting to pop up, as per this post at
>> https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/206827897-Secure-Package-Downloads-for-R
>>
>> However, trying to use one of these mirrors without changing the default
>> download.file.method option gives me errors
>>
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.2
>>
>> I don’t mind just choosing an http mirror but when prompted to select a
>> mirror, there is no distinction made in the mirror listing between http and
>> https mirrors. It would be nice if https mirrors were hidden when the
>> current environment doesn’t support them. Alternatively, at least make a
>> distinction between http and https in the mirror listing. They currently
>> just look like duplicates. I think this is a pretty trivial change but would
>> help a lot with usability.
>>
>> As an example, when using install.packages:
>
> If you update to R-patched, you'll see the difference. With current
> releases of R, you'll see some mirrors twice: the first one is https,
> the second is http.
>
> The other issue you may have is that your system may be configured to
> default to a method that doesn't support https. Try
> download.file("https://cran.rstudio.com";) and
Oops, you need to give a destination. Try
download.file("https://cran.rstudio.com";, destfile = (f <- tempfile()))
> readLines(url("https://cran.rstudio.com";)) to confirm that's not a
> problem for you.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>>> CRAN mirror
>>>
>>> 1: 0-Cloud 2: 0-Cloud
>>> 3: Algeria 4: Argentina (La Plata)
>>> 5: Australia (Canberra) 6: Australia (Melbourne)
>>> 7: Austria 8: Austria
>>> 9: Belgium 10: Brazil (BA)
>>> 11: Brazil (PR) 12: Brazil (RJ)
>>> 13: Brazil (SP 1) 14: Brazil (SP 2)
>>
>> In the listing above there are duplicate entries for 0-cloud and Austria
>> pointing to http and https versions of the same mirror.
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