NEWS

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downloader 0.4 (2015-07-09)

• Use new R 3.2 download methods ("wininet" and "libcurl") when available.

downloader 0.3 (2013-05-01)

• 'source_url()' function now checks the SHA-1 hash the downloaded file.
• Add 'sha_url()' function, for finding the SHA-1 hash of a remote file.

downloader 0.2.2 (2013-02-11)

• Disable all network tests when running on CRAN, because the connection to the remote test website may not be reliable.

downloader 0.2.1 (2013-02-05)

• Change https redirection test to not run on CRAN because their Windows build machine has more stringent security settings.

downloader 0.2 (2013-02-04)

• Switched to using 'Sys.which' to find external programs.
• Added tests.
• When using curl, follow redirects with http. (It already worked with https.)
• Add 'source_url' function.