Dear Nir,
thanks for your help.
https
I copy/pasted the https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/here_1.0.1.tar.gz
URL in my browser (Chromium) and I could download the .tar.gz file with no problems.
getOption()
This is the output when I run getOption("download.file.method")
in RStudio:
NULL
All the best,
Valerio