How can I solve this problem "unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2:"

install.packages ("readxl", dependence = true)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES'

can you click the link http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES in your browser and get served the contents like any other website ?
if not, then your internet access is generally restricted ... are you behind a corporate or educational firewall etc?

if you can browser over to there, then in principle R should be able to also, so hope is alive; and you can search for things to try.

start here for example:
install.packages unable to access index for repository: Try disabling “secure download method for HTTP” - General - RStudio Community

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