Le jeudi 27 octobre 2016 11:29:12 UTC+2, François a écrit : > > R package system include downloading facility from repositories. > That’s why you need curl. At least in theory. >
In practice, web access to (a lot of) data repositories, databases, etc... is more and more used : there is no point to force users to download a whole (WHO|CDC|WTO|<you name it) database when you can query it via some public networking interface. Try to link these heterogenous data, and, without network access, you end up with a very fine mess... > I’ll have to check for 3.3.x but there was alternatives in 3.2.x. > > François > > > On 27/10/2016, at 22:26, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > This is the obvious answer: > > > >> [6] or patch R not to use curl > > > > Why should I need a web download tool to do calculations in statistics? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.