I have been using the pacman package to automatically install and load packages and libraries at the start of my scripts, e.g.:
pacman::p_load(ggplot2, dplyr)
Since recently, I get the following error message:
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/4.3:
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/4.3/PACKAGES'
Checking the URL to the given package repository (https://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/), I see that packages are only provided unit R version 3.4. See screen shot below:
So I wonder if this is a temporary problem, pacman is not being continued or if I need/can change the URL manually to look for packages elsewhere (for e.g. https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/)?
Would there be any convenient alternative to pacman::p_load() if there is no option to have it working again?