On Tue, 21 Feb 2023, Selke, Gisbert W. writes: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:58:33 +0000, Stadler Thomas > <thomas.stad...@vpbank.com> wrote: > >> as the download method 'wininet' is deprecated, I'm looking into >> alternative ways to install packages from within R. >> Unfortunately, curl, libcurl and wget refuse to cooperate with Kerberos on >> our corporate setup. >> When exactly will the 'wininet' method stop working? R release 4.3? > Same problem here. It has been reported before to be a major nuisance if > you're working in an environment with a need for security and data protection. > Unfortunately, it seems it has been decided to go for this regression of > functionality. > > In our case we managed to circumnavigate the problem by > building a local CRAN mirror inside our firewall using > the open source Nexus repository. Seems a bit overkill > (given that wininet has done the trick nicely up to > now), but at least it works. > > HTH. > > \Gisbert
There is also the miniCRAN package (https://cran.r-project.org/package=miniCRAN). -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
