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http:// vs https:// in hardcoded repositories #1059

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bbolker opened this issue Feb 1, 2016 · 3 comments
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http:// vs https:// in hardcoded repositories #1059

bbolker opened this issue Feb 1, 2016 · 3 comments
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bbolker commented Feb 1, 2016

There are a few places where the RStudio CRAN mirror (cran.studio.com) is hard-coded, for convenience (e.g. functions that will get used non-interactively, where user may not have set repo in their .Rprofile). Right now these are hard-coded as http://..., which causes various difficulties when using R-devel (which insists on https:// in many important contexts) - specifically, dependencies may fail to be found when installing packages. In particular, changing http:// to https:// in line 56 of deps.R fixes a lot of problems ...

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hadley commented Feb 1, 2016

Want to do a PR?

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bbolker commented Feb 1, 2016

OK, although does it need to be/should it be conditional on R >= 3.3.0? (I thought there were other uses of hard-coded http://, but I think I was wrong)

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* Pick https mirror if possible.

Fixes #1059

* Add NEWS bullet

* Check for libcurl

* Remove RStudio license block

* Correct issue number

* Merge conflict?
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