We have to install R 3.2.2 on machines with too old libcurl to be able
to use https when installing packages, etc.
When a user tries to use install.packages() (with the default value of
the "repos" option), she is presented with a list of https-repos, which
is not very useful. She also gets an error message
Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
unsupported URL scheme
We have put
local({
options(useHTTPS = FALSE)
})
into the Rprofile.site file, and after that, the user gets a list of
http repos, so she will be able to install packages. But the error
message is still displayed, which can be confusing. Is there a way
around this problem?
Also, perhaps the useHTTPS option should default to FALSE if the libcurl
capability is FALSE?
--
Regards,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik
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