Source: r-cran-downloader Standards-Version: 4.7.4 Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Andreas Tille , Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-cran-digest, architecture-is-64-bit, architecture-is-little-endian, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-downloader Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-downloader.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=downloader Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-cran-downloader Architecture: all Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: ${R:Recommends}, Suggests: ${R:Suggests}, Description: Download Files over HTTP and HTTPS Provides a wrapper for the download.file function, making it possible to download files over HTTPS on Windows, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like platforms. The 'RCurl' package provides this functionality (and much more) but can be difficult to install because it must be compiled with external dependencies. This package has no external dependencies, so it is much easier to install.