Here’s from Mike;
I’ve recently switched to a mac and installing R packages isn’t working. I don’t get the drop-down list of packages when I type in the User Packages field. When I type any name of a package and press the Install button I get the following message. We don’t have a proxy. Other things, like R-Studio, can get to cran without problems.
Installing package into ‘/Users/Mike.Vogelmike1230/.exploratory/R/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib:
cannot open URL ‘http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES’
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3:
cannot open URL ‘http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.3/PACKAGES’
Warning message:
package ‘compare’ is not available (for R version 3.3.2)