Re: [Rd] r-project.org SSL certificate issues

2020-06-10 Thread peter dalgaard
As I said, there is stuff that I don't understand in here (including why browsers apparently do trust alternative chains) -pd > On 10 Jun 2020, at 01:53 , Simon Urbanek wrote: > > You are making a very strong assumption that finding an alternative chain of > trust is safe. I'd argue it's

Re: [Rd] r-project.org SSL certificate issues

2020-06-10 Thread Gábor Csárdi
My (also not expert) understanding is that there is nothing insecure about alternative certificate chains at all. All browsers and macOS's built in SSL library (secure transport) support them properly. OpenSSL and LibreSSL were/are simply broken. This was not such a big issue so far, but now that s

[Rd] Possible Bug: file.exists() Function. Due to UTF-8 Encoding differences on Windows between R 4.0.1 and R 3.6.3?

2020-06-10 Thread Juan Telleria Ruiz de Aguirre
Dear R Developers, I am having an issue with the renv package and R 4.0.1, which I suspect is related to base R and not the renv package itself, as with R 3.6.3 such an "error" does not appear. The error is raised by a file.exists() path, and path "C:\Users\J-tel\Documents", which in R 3.6.3 is r

Re: [Rd] Possible Bug: file.exists() Function. Due to UTF-8 Encoding differences on Windows between R 4.0.1 and R 3.6.3?

2020-06-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 10 June 2020 at 13:06, Juan Telleria Ruiz de Aguirre wrote: | I am having an issue with the renv package and R 4.0.1, which I | suspect is related to base R and not the renv package itself, as with | R 3.6.3 such an "error" does not appear. So a bug in `renv` as it does not account for change

Re: [Rd] Possible Bug: file.exists() Function. Due to UTF-8 Encoding differences on Windows between R 4.0.1 and R 3.6.3?

2020-06-10 Thread Kevin Ushey
Hi Juan, For bug reports to R, you should attempt to create a minimally-reproducible example, using only R's builtin facilities and not any other addon packages. Given your report, it's not clear whether the issue lies within renv or truly is caused by a change in R 4.0.0. Also note that you have

Re: [Rd] Possible Bug: file.exists() Function. Due to UTF-8 Encoding differences on Windows between R 4.0.1 and R 3.6.3?

2020-06-10 Thread Juan Telleria Ruiz de Aguirre
Thank you Kevin, just checked that the error is solved in the latest development version of "renv", and now it works as expected with R 4.0.1: https://github.com/rstudio/renv/commit/976ae7af6dc348af30eaf2893d886f132a76aba0 Sorry for posting in r-devel, I was not sure if it was a R or "renv" error