hadley/devtools — Issue #62: dependency on RCurl
Author: yihui
Created: 2012-02-10 18:06:52+00:00
State: open

I see the only reason for the dependency on RCurl is to download from `https`, and according to the feedback I received, *nix users often have to spend a few more minutes figuring out how to install RCurl because of its system dependency libcurl (and we need to install the header files).

I guess this dependency can be removed because:

1. on Windows, you can `setInternet2(TRUE)`
2. `wget` is widely available under Linux, so you can call `system('wget ...')` to download the zip ball

I do not know Mac, though.