[R] download.file strict certificate revocation check

[Ben Bolker]

   This is sad news indeed.

https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary_by_maintainer.html

   lists Jim as the maintainer of clinsig, crank, eventInterval, 
plotrix, and prettyR.

 > library(packageRank)
 > packageRank(c("clinsig", "crank", "eventInterval", "plotrix", "prettyR"))
         date      packages downloads             rank percentile
1 2023-10-03       clinsig         1 14,454 of 18,024        0.0
2 2023-10-03         crank         2 11,344 of 18,024       22.8
3 2023-10-03 eventInterval         4  8,001 of 18,024       51.0
4 2023-10-03       plotrix     3,082    310 of 18,024       98.3
5 2023-10-03       prettyR        90  1,954 of 18,024       89.1

It seems that at least plotrix and prettyR would be worth rescuing ... 
volunteers ... ? (prettyR has 1 strong reverse dep, plotrix has many ...)

   Ben Bolker


On 2023-10-04 6:30 p.m., Jim Lemon wrote:
> Hello,
> I am very sad to let you know that my husband Jim died in 18th September. I
> apologise for not letting you know earlier but I had trouble finding the
> password for his phone.
> Kind regards,
> Juel Briggs
> 
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2023, 02:07 Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> В Wed, 4 Oct 2023 14:32:49 +0000
>> John Neset <John.Neset using noridian.com> пишет:
>>
>>> No change with True or False with R_LIBCURL_SSL_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT
>>
>> Judging by the screenshot, it looks like you've set an R variable
>> R_LIBCURL_SSL_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT instead of setting an environment
>> variable using Sys.setenv:
>>
>>   Sys.setenv('R_LIBCURL_SSL_REVOKE_BEST_EFFORT' = 'TRUE')
>>
>> (Use Sys.getenv to verify the result.)
>>
>> For the next time, most people on the R-help mailing list would
>> probably appreciate it if you copied and pasted the text from the R
>> console instead of attaching screenshots.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Ivan
>>
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