On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2017-10-19 17:21, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: >> >> I do not think that a >> non-communicating R is useful in Sage. > > > A non-communicating R in Sage can be very useful if you are not using R in > Sage at all (which is very likely the vast majority of Sage users).
Or, as you and I have both pointed out, you *are* using R but would prefer to use a different download method than the one built into R (which may still use HTTPS, especially if it's necessary to access CRAN at all, but that doesn't mean R has to be the one doing the downloading). -- 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.