On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:51:17 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2017-10-19 17:19, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > Again : R is not only a software package but also an ecosystem. > > But why? One could say the same for Python, but you can still install > Python without OpenSSL. > > What if I simply want to use R without any external packages? Or what if > I want to download/install packages in a different way? >
Once upon a time, http was not universally supported, one needed to use ftp instead. Nowadays you often need at least http. That is to say, this point is moot; if you do not want to use https, you're on your own. -- 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.
