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2018 Oct 23
2
Suggestion: Make CRAN source URLs immutable
...ill change to
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz.
The implications of this are that if I want to write a script which
installs version 1.3.1 of `httr`, I need to do so like this:
```
httr_url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz"
curl_result <- system(paste0("curl --head ", httr_url), intern=TRUE)
if (grepl("404", curl_result[1])) {
httr_url <- "
https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz"
}
install.packages(httr_url)
```
I think there are two obvious ways of remedying this...
2018 Oct 24
0
Suggestion: Make CRAN source URLs immutable
...n.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz.
> The implications of this are that if I want to write a script which
> installs version 1.3.1 of `httr`, I need to do so like this:
> ```
> httr_url <- "https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz"
> curl_result <- system(paste0("curl --head ", httr_url), intern=TRUE)
> if (grepl("404", curl_result[1])) {
> httr_url <- "
> https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/httr_1.3.1.tar.gz"
> }
> install.packages(httr_url)
> ```
> I think there are...