Unable to install github packages from R, “could not resolve proxy”

Question

I recently changed some settings in the Rstudio configuration while tryng to set up a conection with conda, I tried to return all the settings to default and now I can not install github packages anymore, when I try to install a package I recieve the error

    Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
  Could not resolve proxy: proxy.server.com

I tried using devtools::install_github() and remotes::install_github() both are giving me the same error. Is there something i can chek to see if the connection is ok? I am not having any other issues when installing packages from CRAN or pulling and pushing to github from Rstudio. Thanks!!

Answer 1

I think the best way to check your connection is try it out. You can check your connection by push a small change to another RStudio project. After that you can check the logs in RStudio (accessible via help/Diagnostics/Show log files.