Question: should capabilities("libcurl") be TRUE?

[kendonB]

From the capabilities docs: As from R 3.3.0 always true for Unix-alikes, and true for CRAN Windows builds.

FALSE for me with a fresh install of Windows and not installing regular R first.

[thequackdaddy]

Sorry I missed this. I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Can you provide some more context?

[kendonB]

I was running into a problem downloading something using this build of R. I had traced the problem back to this build of R not making libcurl available when put on a fresh install of Windows.

So, it looks like R for Windows vanilla installs and links libcurl whereas this build does not for some reason.

You can test for whether it's there using capabilities("libcurl").

[thequackdaddy]

https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Support-for-libcurl