On 3 July 2015 at 10:24, Paul Gilbert wrote:
| The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
| list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
| dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
| example, it would add a system depe
My downloader package was created to deal with https on various platforms:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/downloader/index.html
The package dates back to before R had libcurl support. It's very
simple: if you're on Windows, it uses setInternet2(), which enable
https support, and if you'r
The difficulty with most workarounds suggested so far is the expanded
list of dependencies. My package and quantmod, have had a simple
dependency on download.file in utils. Picking on Dirks suggestion as an
example, it would add a system dependency on libcurl and an R package
dependency on curl
In random, I do the following, using R 3.2.0 or later with libcurl where
installed, and Jeroen's lightweight curl::curl otherwise.
getConnection <- function(urltxt, ...) {
if (getRversion() >= "3.2.0" && capabilities()["libcurl"]) {
url(urltxt, ..., method="libcurl")
} else {
On 07/02/2015 11:52 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 03/07/2015 5:24 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
From R 3.2.0, check:
capabilities("libcurl")
libcurl
TRUE
TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
FALSE, make sure lib
On 03/07/2015 5:24 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
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>
> On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> From R 3.2.0, check:
>>
>>> capabilities("libcurl")
>> libcurl
>> TRUE
>>
>> TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
>> FALSE, make sure libcurl is available when/if y
On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
From R 3.2.0, check:
capabilities("libcurl")
libcurl
TRUE
TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see
FALSE, make sure libcurl is available when/if you build R from source.
I do have TRUE for this. The default behav
Hi Paul,
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> (This problem with download.file() affects quantmod, and possibly several
> other packages. e.g. getSymbols('M2',src='FRED') fails.)
>
Thanks for the note. I'm aware of this, and actually wanted to ask
this list what the "best practi
(This problem with download.file() affects quantmod, and possibly
several other packages. e.g. getSymbols('M2',src='FRED') fails.)
I think the St Louis Fed has moved to using https for connections, and I
believe all the US government web sites are doing this. An http request
is automatically s
