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 From: stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday 21 February 2024 12:25 To: James Powell <James.Powell at hse.ie> Cc: r-help at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Network issue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. 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.Powell at hse.ie<mailto:James.Powell at 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 From: stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com<mailto:ssefick at gmail.com>> Sent: Wednesday 21 February 2024 00:04 To: James Powell <James.Powell at hse.ie<mailto:James.Powell at hse.ie>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org<mailto:r-help at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] Network issue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. 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.Powell at hse.ie<mailto:James.Powell at 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 From: stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com<mailto:ssefick at gmail.com>> Sent: Tuesday 20 February 2024 19:43 To: James Powell <James.Powell at hse.ie<mailto:James.Powell at hse.ie>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org<mailto:r-help at r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R] Network issue CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organisation. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognise the sender and know the content is safe. 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 On Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 12:24 James Powell <James.Powell at hse.ie<mailto:James.Powell at hse.ie>> wrote: Need information and advice on COVID-19? Go to www.hse.ie/coronavirus<https://scanner.topsec.com/?d=2120&r=show&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.ie%2Fcoronavirus&t=ceec0a7bd0b1f730294db0447d2a0c1ad2741351> ________________________________ "T? an fhaisn?is sa r?omhphost seo (ceangalt?in san ?ireamh) faoi r?n. Baineann s? leis an t? ar seoladh chuige amh?in agus t? s? ar intinn go bhfaighfidh siadsan amh?in ? agus gurb iadsan amh?in a dh?anfaidh breithni? air. M?s rud ? nach tusa an duine ar leis ?, t? cosc ioml?n ar aon fhaisn?is at? ann, a ?s?id, a chraobhscaoileadh, a scaipeadh, a nochtadh, a fhoilsi?, n? a ch?ipe?il . Seains gurb iad tuairim? pearsanta an ?dar at? san r?omhphost agus nach tuairim? FSS iad. M? fuair t? an r?omhphost seo tr? dhearmad, bheadh muid bu?och d? gcuirfe? in i?il don Deasc Seirbh?s? ECT ar an nguth?n ag +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> n? ar an r?omhphost chuig service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> agus ansin glan an r?omhphost seo ded' ch?ras." "Information in this email (including attachments) is confidential. It is intended for receipt and consideration only by the intended recipient. If you are not an addressee or intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, publication or copying of information contained in this email is strictly prohibited. Opinions expressed in this email may be personal to the author and are not necessarily the opinions of the HSE. If this email has been received by you in error we would be grateful if you could immediately notify the ICT Service Desk by telephone at +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> or by email to service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> and thereafter delete this e-mail from your system" ________________________________ Need information and advice on COVID-19? Go to www.hse.ie/coronavirus<https://scanner.topsec.com/?d=2120&r=show&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hse.ie%2Fcoronavirus&t=ceec0a7bd0b1f730294db0447d2a0c1ad2741351> ________________________________ "T? an fhaisn?is sa r?omhphost seo (ceangalt?in san ?ireamh) faoi r?n. Baineann s? leis an t? ar seoladh chuige amh?in agus t? s? ar intinn go bhfaighfidh siadsan amh?in ? agus gurb iadsan amh?in a dh?anfaidh breithni? air. M?s rud ? nach tusa an duine ar leis ?, t? cosc ioml?n ar aon fhaisn?is at? ann, a ?s?id, a chraobhscaoileadh, a scaipeadh, a nochtadh, a fhoilsi?, n? a ch?ipe?il . Seains gurb iad tuairim? pearsanta an ?dar at? san r?omhphost agus nach tuairim? FSS iad. M? fuair t? an r?omhphost seo tr? dhearmad, bheadh muid bu?och d? gcuirfe? in i?il don Deasc Seirbh?s? ECT ar an nguth?n ag +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> n? ar an r?omhphost chuig service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> agus ansin glan an r?omhphost seo ded' ch?ras." "Information in this email (including attachments) is confidential. It is intended for receipt and consideration only by the intended recipient. If you are not an addressee or intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, publication or copying of information contained in this email is strictly prohibited. Opinions expressed in this email may be personal to the author and are not necessarily the opinions of the HSE. If this email has been received by you in error we would be grateful if you could immediately notify the ICT Service Desk by telephone at +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> or by email to service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> and thereafter delete this e-mail from your system" ________________________________ Need information and advice on COVID-19? Go to www.hse.ie/coronavirus<https://www.hse.ie/coronavirus> ________________________________ "T? an fhaisn?is sa r?omhphost seo (ceangalt?in san ?ireamh) faoi r?n. Baineann s? leis an t? ar seoladh chuige amh?in agus t? s? ar intinn go bhfaighfidh siadsan amh?in ? agus gurb iadsan amh?in a dh?anfaidh breithni? air. M?s rud ? nach tusa an duine ar leis ?, t? cosc ioml?n ar aon fhaisn?is at? ann, a ?s?id, a chraobhscaoileadh, a scaipeadh, a nochtadh, a fhoilsi?, n? a ch?ipe?il . Seains gurb iad tuairim? pearsanta an ?dar at? san r?omhphost agus nach tuairim? FSS iad. M? fuair t? an r?omhphost seo tr? dhearmad, bheadh muid bu?och d? gcuirfe? in i?il don Deasc Seirbh?s? ECT ar an nguth?n ag +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> n? ar an r?omhphost chuig service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> agus ansin glan an r?omhphost seo ded' ch?ras." "Information in this email (including attachments) is confidential. It is intended for receipt and consideration only by the intended recipient. If you are not an addressee or intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution, disclosure, publication or copying of information contained in this email is strictly prohibited. Opinions expressed in this email may be personal to the author and are not necessarily the opinions of the HSE. If this email has been received by you in error we would be grateful if you could immediately notify the ICT Service Desk by telephone at +353 818 300300<tel:%2B353%20818%20300300> or by email to service.desk at hse.ie<mailto:service.desk at hse.ie> and thereafter delete this e-mail from your system" ________________________________ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]