On a company computer, not installing packages

#1

Hello,

I have RStudio Pro on my company's computer, where I am not the admin (not sure if that matters), and I am unable to install any of the packages. Here is the error I get:

Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES'

If anyone knows, how can I fix this I would greatly appreciate it.

#2

If you enter https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES as the URL in a browser, can you get there? If not, there is probably some restriction on your network preventing access.

#3

I can get to that page, but how do I use it to install then?

#4

If you cannot download that file from R like this:

download.file("https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES", tmp <- tempfile())

then maybe you are using a proxy that is not set for R?

In this is the case, then you need to set the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables to point to your proxy.

#5

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