No way of installing packages work on RStudio

[gauravsb]

Every package I try to install gives me the following error

I have the Use Secure download method disabled, but still nothing.

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks!!

[AlexisW]

Does R have access to the Internet? What happens if you run:

download.file("https://forum.posit.co/t/no-way-of-installing-packages-work-on-rstudio/149389",
              destfile = tempfile())

[gauravsb]

Hi Alexis,

I am connected to internet and here's the output from your snippet

The issue seems to be with CRAN or other servers getting the packages

Thanks!!

[AlexisW]

I don't have the answer, but some ideas to narrow down the problem:

0/ I'm 99.9% sure this will fail, but just in case try:

available.packages()

1/ You haven't used renv, packrat or similar? If in doubt, try installing from a new RStudio project. Also try installing in R (not RStudio); on Windows you can use RGui.

2/ Change the repo url to cran.rproject

options(repos="https://cran.r-project.org")
install.packages("tidyverse")

(note I'm not using the geojson example as the github repo looks orphaned, though it still seems available on CRAN)

3/ download the binary first, then do a local install. Under the scenes, install.packages() does this two steps, you can separate them:

dir_to_save <- tempdir()
path_to_save <- file.path(dir_to_save, "geojson_0.3.4.zip")
download.file("https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/geojson_0.3.4.zip",
              destfile = path_to_save)



install.packages(path_to_save,
                 contriburl = NULL)

library(geojson)

note the library() call should fail in any case because of missing dependencies. You can clean up afterwards with:

remove.packages("geojson")

4/ very unlikely, but in case the function is overwritten somehow you can try calling it explicitely:

utils::install.packages("tidyverse")

You can also try starting R (not RStudio) from the command line with option --vanilla to ignore any local configuration which could interfere with normal function.