Re: [Rd] Bug in file.access on Windows when using network shares

2018-10-24 Thread Tomas Kalibera
Dear Nick, I've updated the implementation of file.access() on Windows to fall back to _waccess() when the security descriptor is not available. It now works on my system with files selected for offline use even when the underlying samba share (on a non-Windows host) becomes unavailable. As I

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Make CRAN source URLs immutable

2018-10-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Kurt Wheeler writes: Try e.g. https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr&version=1.3.1 https://cran.r-project.org/package=httr&version=1.3.0 -k > Hello, I hope the is the right list to send this suggestion to. > I was wondering if it might be possible to have CRAN store the most current > ve

[Rd] Suggestion: Make CRAN source URLs immutable

2018-10-24 Thread Kurt Wheeler
Hello, I hope the is the right list to send this suggestion to. I was wondering if it might be possible to have CRAN store the most current version of a package's source tarball at a location that does not change. As an example, the source tarball for `httr` is stored at https://cran.r-project.org