Apologies for the typo in my original email. I meant “quiet=1” and it was
working. The log was typed but not copied so that was why there was a typo.
But as stated in the reasoning - it hides all the output, so also other
useful information like where the lib is installed, compile details etc.
> Simon Urbanek
> on Sun, 4 Feb 2024 10:33:34 +1300 writes:
> Any reason why you didn't use quiet=TRUE to suppress that
> output?
He wrote 'quite' instead of 'quiet' {see cited below '1. quite=1'}
and probably never tried the correct spelling ...
> There is no
For cases like these, I think it would be more useful to have some
mechanism for associating URLs / hosts with credentials, and have R use
those credentials by default whenever accessing those URLs. Since
download.file() now supports custom headers, this could be a mechanism for
setting headers to
Any reason why you didn't use quiet=TRUE to suppress that output?
There is no official API structure for credentials in R repositories, so R has
no way of knowing which part of the URL are credentials as it is not under R's
purview - it could be part of the path or anything, so there is no way
I've just been reading
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication, and it
states that putting userid:password in the URL is deprecated, but it
does make sense that R should protect users who still use that scheme.
Duncan Murdoch
On 01/02/2024 11:28 a.m., Xinyi wrote:
Hi all,
When trying to install a package from R using install.packages(), it will
print out the full url address (of the remote repository) it was trying to
access. A bit further digging shows it is from the in_do_curlDownload
method from R's libcurl
