Hydrotools not installing "cannot open URL"

[gmahadwar]

Hydrotools install error

If installation of hydrotools is yielding the following error
install_github("HARPgroup/hydro-tools")

Downloading GitHub repo HARPgroup/hydro-tools@HEAD
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/HARPgroup/hydro-tools/tarball/HEAD'

Solution:
options(download.file.method = "wininet")

Source files from github via internet error

If retrieval of hydrotools is unable to pull from github
source("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HARPgroup/hydro-tools/master/R/rmd_utils.R")

Warning: URL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HARPgroup/hydro-tools/master/R/rmd_utils.R': status was 'SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK'Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
cannot open the connection to 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HARPgroup/hydro-tools/master/R/rmd_utils.R'

Lateral Solution:
Then source from config.local hydro-tools location

Other potential solutions to try

• Proxy error - not the issue as per control panel and settings, command prompt confirmed no proxy using netsh winhttp show proxy
• Firewall issue - not addressable without admin
• need to reinstall r tools for 4.2 - tried this, no change
• ssh key into github issue
  • see https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/reviewing-your-ssh-keys vs https://github.com/settings/keys
  • C:\Users....ssh\known_hosts.bak
  • https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/ have that rsa, error in trying to curl -L https://api.github.com/meta | jq -r '.ssh_keys | .[]' | sed -e 's/^/github.com /' >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts > "curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not establish a secure connection to it" see https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html
  • curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); but there's no libcurl for R.4.2. https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/219949047-Installing-older-versions-of-packages

Notes: With R 4.3.2, able to get curl and pass through source("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ .... lines. However, main error recurs indicating sourcing wasn't successful (as in #381 (comment))

Related / Subsequent TE Render errors

Errors using om_get_rundata After resolving hydrotools install

SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72050284/r-downloading-error-ssl-peer-certificate-or-ssh-remote-key-was-not-ok
  • did not resolve by unchecking secure download or use proxy options

[rburghol]

Note re the above stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72050284/r-downloading-error-ssl-peer-certificate-or-ssh-remote-key-was-not-ok

One rec has not-using secure mode downloads, but my settings have all secure OK. This may be fine for my machine, but yours clearly has secure transaction troubles (hope it's not some windows update that will eventually bite me too).