Cannot download from behind proxy

[Luke-Symes-Tsy]

My Windows computer, with R 4.4.2, uses a proxy to access the internet.

Using options(download.file.method = "wininet"), I can successfully run install.packages("zip"). However, running pak::pkg_install("zip") fails with:

Error: 
! error in pak subprocess
Caused by error in `download.file(url, tmp, quiet = TRUE)`:
! cannot open URL 'http://bioconductor.org/config.yaml'

For example:

It seems like pak is not recognising the download.file.method option? I am using pak 0.8.0 from CRAN.

[gaborcsardi]

pak does not use download.file() and does not use download.file.method. This is a bug that is possibly fixed in the devel version, you can install it like this:
https://pak.r-lib.org/reference/install.html#nightly-builds