It's not something I need, per se, but what other packages that depend on RCurl need. This issue was brought to my attention because someone on the support site had a problem with the UniProt.ws package, which uses RCurl to download data. Given the reverse dependency tree for RCurl I assume this problem will have an outsized effect, at least amongst Windows users.
I know that DTL wrote the package back in the day, but apparently the CRAN maintainers have been de facto maintainers/authors since 2013. So I sent them the same reproducible error. Anyway, there isn't a current version on Github (there is a two-year old version at github.com/cran/RCurl), so there isn't a more interactive way to report the error. On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:20 PM Vincent Carey <st...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote: > 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 th...{{dropped:25}} _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
