I cant seem to access github to install packages via R, please help
remotes::install_github("OHDSI/CohortMethod")
Output--->
Downloading GitHub repo OHDSI/CohortMethod@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/OHDSI/CohortMethod/tarball/HEAD '
are you behind any firewall, personal / academic / corporate, that could be to blame ...
After considering that, I would investigate the download method.
getOption("download.file.method", default = "auto")
On my windows laptop this is "libcurl", and it would perform the download you require.
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Thanks for the reply, its my PC, got it yesterday but not in anyway an expert,
Tried your 2nd suggestion and got getOption("download.file.method", default = "auto")
[1] "libcurl"
Please any advice on how I would I go about disabling the firewall feature to be sure?
Can you access the link via your web browser?
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Thank you, for some reason it works now.
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