I reproduced the problem you noted. Rebuilding RCurl with (an updated?) openssl for windows is not a slam-dunk for me at the moment. Can the curl package do what you need?
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:49 AM James W. MacDonald <jmac...@uw.edu> wrote: > FYI, there appears to be a problem with RCurl on Windows, most likely due > to building against an old version of OpenSSL. Or at least that's what > Google tells me. Anyway, reproducible code: > > > library(RCurl) > > url <- "www.uniprot.org/mapping" > > params <- c(from = "ACC+ID", to = "PDB_ID", format = "tab", query = > "P31946 P62258") > > getForm(url, .params = params, .opts = list(FOLLOWLOCATION = TRUE)) > Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : > error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol > version > > I sent the same to c...@r-project.org, which is the email for the > maintainer. So they have been notified, but maybe somebody knows whomever > is actually maintaining RCurl, and can pull a string? > > Best, > > Jim > > > > -- > James W. MacDonald, M.S. > Biostatistician > University of Washington > Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences > 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, # 100 > Seattle WA 98105-6099 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- The information in this e-mail is intended only for the ...{{dropped:18}} _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel