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Bypass WB firewall in installation of packages from CRAN

Open luisesanmartin opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

The firewall of WB computers might reject access to CRAN packages from R. The error in such cases shows the following image

This can be solved in RStudio by deactivating the use of the secure download for HTTP in Tools >> Global Options >> Packages image

Credits: https://community.rstudio.com/t/install-packages-unable-to-access-index-for-repository-try-disabling-secure-download-method-for-http/16578

luisesanmartin avatar Mar 15 '23 22:03 luisesanmartin