Issues installing packages like tidyverse and R markdown

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Hello,

I am new to coding and am having trouble getting started. I want to make sure I am set up to create data visuals and want to access tools like R Markdown and ggplot. I am tryign to download "tidyverse" since I know it carries the ggplot2 feature but I am getting the issue below.

I have received the same issue with other package install attempts on R as well as Python (jupyter). Is there an issue on my path perhaps?

install.packages("tidyverse")

Output:
WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:

https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/ipadilla/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
unable to access index for repository https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib:
cannot open URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘tidyverse’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
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You need to download rtools before you can download packaged as install.packages. The error message provides you the link to download it: RTools: Toolchains for building R and R packages from source on Windows

Here is more info: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rlanguage/comments/1c8h6uj/issues_installing_rtools_package/

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Are you behind a proxy? If yes, then did you configure R to use your proxy? Maybe your sysadmin can help you to do that?