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gaut
gaut

Reputation: 5958

R bypass ssl installing packages

I am at a company that uses an internal registry to host R packages.

install.packages("bookdown", repos=xxx) gives me the unable to access index for repository error due to self signed certificate in value chain.

I am able to download the tarfile using

curl -k0 internalrepo/mypackage.tar.gz R CMD INSTALL mypackage.tar.gz

However I will have to do that for ALL packages and dependencies.

Isn't there a way to force install.packages to use INSECURE curl? I tried changing the download.file.method to wget, libcurl, and curl so far without success...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1630

Answers (1)

clemenskuehn
clemenskuehn

Reputation: 165

In a similar setting (plus windows), I use options given in this SO answer inside my .Rprofile and it works:

 options(repos = c(CRAN = "internalrepo"),
         download.file.method = "curl",
         download.file.extra = "-k -L")

Although it would be much safer to set this for install.packages only and not for download.packages in general.

Upvotes: 2

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