Thank you. I ask because our IT people have security concerns with that functionality
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23/01/2014 16:15, Mark Lyman wrote: > >> Can I build a version of R for Windows without some functionality like ftp >> and sockets? And without some of the recommended packages? It doesn't look >> like this can be done from the Windows install file, but if it can that >> would nice to know too. >> > > Installing the recommended packages is a documented step you can omit. > > Not building the Internet support means modifying Makefiles, but it would > seem as easy to remove the internet[2].dll if you want to hobble the > feature. > > OTOH, in 15 years no one has ever asked to build R without internet > support, on any platform. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
