On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier <emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Again : R is not only a software package but also an ecosystem. The 11638 > (as of today) packages available to R users are a large part of R usefulness > to its users. So, "disabling downloads from CRAN" is *NOT* fine (to them, at > least...).
I'm not saying it shouldn't be possible to install R packages at all, any less than it should be possible to install Python packages. My point here was that with Python, for example, one can manually download a package tarball or wheel from PyPI using, say, curl for example (maybe if they running on an air-gapped network this was done on a separate machine and sneaker-netted over, etc.). pip can then install from the manually downloaded package file. I don't know if the same is possible with R but you'd think it should be. However R installs packages the sequence still has to be something like 1) Download package from CRAN 2) Verify that package downloaded successfully (maybe it does this maybe it doesn't) 3) Install the package So it should be possible to do steps 1 and 2 manually, and then skip straight to 3. Admittedly running R on an air-gapped network is probably not a situation the developers have in mind but I have very little doubt that the use case exists. > And, BTW : which is your vote ? My vote now is for a re-vote :) -- 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.
