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I am trying to install the BTYplus package in R.

devtools::install_github("mplatzer/BTYDplus", dependencies=TRUE)
library(BTYDplus)
demo(package="BTYDplus")

But it gives me the following error:

Downloading github repo mplatzer/BTYDplus@master Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Couldn't connect to server

Did anyone had a similar issue when installing packages on R?

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    Works for me (W7, 64 bit). Proxy issues? Commented Jul 31, 2015 at 9:18
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    Yes I am on Windows 64. How can I check if is proxy? Commented Aug 6, 2015 at 9:09
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    It's a year later -- did you resolve your issue? I'm getting this error: Error in curl::curl_fetch_disk(url, x$path, handle = handle) : Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?) Commented Aug 26, 2016 at 3:21
  • @zbicyclist did you figure out the zbicyclist issue? Commented Jan 14, 2019 at 9:01

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You can download the library externally and then import it to R: Download from: https://github.com/mplatzer/BTYDplus import from: Tools > Install Packages/ Package Archive File(.zip; .tar.gz)

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Setting the proxy did work for me. Here is how I have done that:

library(httr)
set_config(use_proxy(url='http://my.proxy', port, username, password))

(and fill in your own url, port, username and password. Username and password were not necessary for me)

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For me it was not proxy problem, instead the following lines solved my problem:

library(httr)
set_config(config(ssl_verifypeer = 0L))

Found it here.

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