Hi Stephen,
Thanks again for getting back to me, Ivan Krylov responded also and suggested 
windows binaries and I must confess I was only familiar with installing from 
files via the package sources (apart from the conventional install.packages 
method), so the solution was as simple as installing via the binaries. Thanks 
again, best wishes, James

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My suggestion is probably overkill. Sorry about that. I don't know much about 
windows.

Have you tried posit package manager? Maybe that is not blocked? I think 
windows binaries are installable from there?

A workaround, that I don't think I would suggest, might be RSelinium to 
automate the download process since it seems you have web access?

Best of luck!
Kindest regards,

Stephen Sefick

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 01:09 James Powell 
<james.pow...@hse.ie<mailto:james.pow...@hse.ie>> wrote:
Hi Stephen,
I didn’t see this suggested previously, but yes I have made repeated attempts 
to gain access to CRAN via R but to no avail. Mirroring CRAN is a really good 
idea, but I’m not sure how to get R to recognise the local file locations when 
the installation files seek access to CRAN via urls. Thanks again for your 
help. Regards, James

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As stated in an earlier email, this might be better directed to your IT? You 
might think about mirroring CRAN locally, but this would be non-trivial.

Stephen Sefick

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 17:26 James Powell 
<james.pow...@hse.ie<mailto:james.pow...@hse.ie>> wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Thanks very much for getting back to me. My problem is described below. Any 
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, James

Hi,
Sorry for bothering you because I know that your time is voluntary, but I would 
really appreciate some help. I work in a hospital in part of Ireland’s national 
health service, a service which was struck by a massive cyber attack a couple 
of years ago. Since then their security has been very tight, and I can’t access 
the internet through my R or R Studio. To install packages I need to download 
the files through a browser (Chrome by default) and install them from the 
files, which is very tedious when you consider the amount of dependencies, but 
I’m happy to do it.

This was working fine until yesterday when I had error messages trying to 
install some packages. See enclosed “S2” for example. It looks like it is 
trying to download a file as part of the installation, but of course can’t. If 
you could help with this I would be very grateful. Other examples are jqr, 
protolite, curl.

I came across a different error message when trying to install openssl, 
although the issue may be the same. For this package it says

Warning in file(name, "wb") :
  cannot open file 'openssl/tests/keys/message.rsa.crypt': Permission denied
Error in file(name, "wb") : cannot open the connection

I have tried going into the archive of these packages and installing older 
versions, but no luck with those either.
I hope you can help. Best wishes, James


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Sent: Tuesday 20 February 2024 19:43
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Maybe I missed the rest of the post? You are more likely to get help with your 
problems if you create a minimal reproducible example.
Kindest regards,

Stephen Sefick

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