Cannot install the bbplot

[khalidmeister]

Hi, can you help me? I can't install the bbplot and it shows an error like this:
Error: Failed to install 'bbplot' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.6:
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES'

[munichrocker]

The error means that R has trouble connecting to Github when running:

devtools::install_github('bbc/bbplot')

Some ideas on how to fix that:

• Make sure you're using the devtools::install_github('bbc/bbplot') function when trying to install bbplot (which is different from Base R's install.packages())
• Have you successfully installed devtools by running install.packages('devtools')? The stats.ox.ac.uk-url indicates that you are connecting to a local package repository, other than CRAN.
  You might check your CRAN mirror in the RStudio preferences -> Packages. Once you're there anyway, you'd want to tick the "Use secure download method for HTTP"-option.
  You can also try to set a CRAN-mirror manually by running install.packages('devtools', repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")
• Are you using a tunneled connection to the internet (e.g. a VPN or a proxy server)? Try disabling it.

[DAbless04]

Hi @khalidmeister Were you able to resolve the issue? I am getting the same error and tried what @munichrocker mentioned, but it still doesn't work. Thanks.

[panurusbiarmicus]

@DAbless04 Same :( tried everything but can't make it work.
Have you found a solution since you posted ?

[hartatsr4]

I am not sure if this will help but played around with a number of variations and here is what finally worked.

devtools::install_github('bbc/bbplot')
Each time, running the code results in: "Enter one or more numbers, or an empty line to skip updates:" Selected '3' each time

Then, sequentially, I installed these packages (again) after running the devtools command above.

• Rcpp
• glue
• digest

After the 'digest' install step, had to delete this file: ~\Documents\R\win-library\3.6/00LOCK

Then, sequentially, installed these last packages (again).

• curl
• fansi
• backports

Installed after that last package reinstall. Can't imagine that is how it should work!