Libcurl support

[Martyn Plummer]

R has support for libcurl (>= 7.28.0) since R version 3.2.0. This
feature allows the functions functions url() and download.file() to
access secure URLs. With the US government adopting an https-only policy
for federal websites and web services it is increasingly important to
offer secure download facilities to R users. Users will also benefit
from the increased security of downloading and installing R packages
from a CRAN mirror that supports https.

Users can test whether libcurl is supported with:

>  capabilities("libcurl") 
libcurl 
  FALSE 

Fedora binaries for R do not currently support libcurl. It would be very
helpful if they did. It suffices to have libcurl-devel as a build
requirement and it will be picked up by the configure script.

Martyn

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[José Abílio Matos]

On Wednesday 08 July 2015 15:48:22 Martyn Plummer wrote:
>  Fedora binaries for R do not currently support libcurl. It would be
> very
>  helpful if they did. It suffices to have libcurl-devel as a build
>  requirement and it will be picked up by the configure script.
>  
>  Martyn 
That seems quite straightforward and something that goes along our goals.

Regarding this issue are there any other capabilities that you think would be worthwhile
to include in Fedora packages that are not yet enabled?

Regards,
-- 
José Abílio

[José Abílio Matos]

On Wednesday 08 July 2015 15:18:50 José Matos wrote:
>  Regarding this issue are there any other capabilities that you think
> would be worthwhile to include in Fedora packages that are not yet enabled? 
Ignore that request. The answer is easy and obvious :-) :

>  capabilities() 
       jpeg         png        tiff       tcltk 
       X11        aqua 
       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE 
   http/ftp     sockets      libxml        fifo      cledit       iconv 
       TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE 
        NLS     profmem       cairo         ICU long.double     libcurl 
       TRUE       FALSE        TRUE        TRUE        TRUE       FALSE 

Regards,
-- 
José Abílio

[Tom Callaway]

On 07/08/2015 09:48 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote:
>  Fedora binaries for R do not currently support libcurl. It would be
> very
>  helpful if they did. It suffices to have libcurl-devel as a build
>  requirement and it will be picked up by the configure script. 
This is now done in R-3.2.1-2. Thanks for the note.

~tom

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