RStudio can't access Package Manager URL but I can with a browser

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We recently started using renv, which automatically switched our package repo to Package Manager. This created an issue because for some reason RStudio can't access it when trying to install packages:

Warning: unable to access index for repository https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest/src/contrib:
  cannot open URL 'https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest/src/contrib/PACKAGES

I can open this URL via a browser with no problem as well as with httr2:

<httr2_response>
GET https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest/src/contrib/PACKAGES
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Body: In memory (4533467 bytes)

I don't have a problem downloading packages through CRAN, just with Package Manager. Would we expect it to fail using httr2 if it's failing to access the URL when downloading a package? Any thoughts on how I can troubleshoot this issue?

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Hi @jonbry, the difference here might be the download method used by renv vs. httr. So a couple questions to try and troubleshoot this:

  • Do you have a proxy in this environment where access to https://packagemanager.posit.co would fail if the proxy was not being used?
  • What is the download method configured as in R, which is what renv would be using? In R, what is the output of:
options("download.file.method", "download.file.extra")
  • If you haven't customized the download method in R, what do you get when you enable verbose debug logging and try to access that same URL with R's default download method:
options(internet.info = 1)
curlGetHeaders("https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest/src/contrib/PACKAGES")