Something else changed on your system as Catalina does no domain/IP/URL 
blocking without user-intervention and those repo URLs work fine on all my 
(many) Catalina systems.

What else changed after you did the Catalina install?

There's a great deal wrong with Catalina, this is not one of those things.

> On Dec 18, 2019, at 10:43, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, my best guess is that file downloads are failing somehow. It's not like, 
> e.g.,
> 
> https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES.gz
> 
> is not on the website. 
> 
> Time to get scientific: Try putting a debug(download.file) and/or 
> debug(available.packages), retry the install (or maybe just do 
> available.packages(repos=....)), and single-step through the call to see 
> where it goes wrong. One possibility is that you don't have write permission 
> for the directory that it wants to download into, so figure out what the 
> exact target is.
> 
> -pd
> 
> 
>> On 18 Dec 2019, at 16:05 , bruno apolloni <apoll...@di.unimi.it> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the clarification. I did it, but with the same result
>> 
>>> install.packages("regtools", repo = "https://cloud.r-project.org";)
>> Installing package into ‘/Users/blapo_nuovo/Library/R/3.6/library’
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository 
>> https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib:
>> Warning: unable to access index for repository 
>> https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6:
>> Warning message:
>> package ‘regtools’ is not available (for R version 3.6.2) 
>> 
>> Cave Catalina!  Me too have no problem with el-captain.
>> 
>> Bruno
>> 
>>> Il giorno 18 dic 2019, alle ore 15:52, Duncan Murdoch 
>>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> On 18/12/2019 8:43 a.m., bruno apolloni wrote:
>>>> Do you mean that it does not work locally on my computer, but only in the 
>>>> cloud?
>>> 
>>> I think he meant
>>> 
>>> install.packages("regtools", repo = "https://cloud.r-project.org";)
>>> 
>>> which works for me (but I'm not on Catalina, I'm still on High Sierra).
>>> 
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the collaboration
>>>> Bruno
>>>>> Il giorno 18 dic 2019, alle ore 14:37, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> ha 
>>>>> scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just works out of the box, i.e. the cloud repo.
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS: please CC the list in - thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 18 Dec 2019, at 14:34, bruno apolloni <apoll...@di.unimi.it 
>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I tried from many repo:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://cran.r-project.org <https://cran.r-project.org/>
>>>>>> https://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/CRAN/ <https://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/CRAN/>
>>>>>> https://cran.stat.unipd.it <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/>
>>>>>> http://cran.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/ 
>>>>>> <http://cran.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> always with the same answer:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> package ‘regtools’ is not available (for R version 3.6.2) .
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Which URL you refer to? The above links are opened in Safari.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for your cooperation
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Il giorno 18 dic 2019, alle ore 13:41, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de 
>>>>>>> <mailto:rai...@krugs.de>> ha scritto:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Also on Catalena: I can install without problems. Try a different repo? 
>>>>>>> Can you open the URL in Safari?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Rainer
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 18 Dec 2019, at 13:32, bruno apolloni <apoll...@di.unimi.it 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Any help after the Ken answer?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Inizio messaggio inoltrato:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Da: bruno apolloni <apoll...@di.unimi.it 
>>>>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it>>
>>>>>>>>> Oggetto: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] damned Catalina
>>>>>>>>> Data: 18 dicembre 2019 13:30:54 CET
>>>>>>>>> A: Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au <mailto:k...@kjbeath.com.au>>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Actually, in https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ 
>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/> 
>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ 
>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/>> I read;
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> For discussion of Mac-related topics and reporting Mac-specific bugs, 
>>>>>>>>> please use the R-SIG-Mac 
>>>>>>>>> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac 
>>>>>>>>> <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac>> mailing list.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Did something went wrong? Should I remove the first line of my mail?  
>>>>>>>>> Actually, what I need is to run “regtools” on Cran R insalled on my 
>>>>>>>>> computer. Thanks for your unsderstanding, all the best
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Bruno
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Bruno Apolloni
>>>>>>>>> (Full Professor )
>>>>>>>>> Dipartimento di Informatica
>>>>>>>>> University of Milano
>>>>>>>>> Via Comelico 39
>>>>>>>>> 20135 Milano (Italy)
>>>>>>>>> Tel. +39(0)2-50316284
>>>>>>>>> Fax. +39(0)2-50316228
>>>>>>>>> Mobile +39 333 7469878
>>>>>>>>> e-mail: apoll...@di.unimi.it <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it> 
>>>>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it>>
>>>>>>>>> http://homes.di.unimi.it/apolloni <http://homes.di.unimi.it/apolloni> 
>>>>>>>>> <http://homes.di.unimi.it/apolloni 
>>>>>>>>> <http://homes.di.unimi.it/apolloni>>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Il giorno 18 dic 2019, alle ore 13:08, Ken Beath 
>>>>>>>>>> <k...@kjbeath.com.au <mailto:k...@kjbeath.com.au> 
>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:k...@kjbeath.com.au <mailto:k...@kjbeath.com.au>>> ha 
>>>>>>>>>> scritto:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Try another repository. It works fine with the main CRAN and teh 
>>>>>>>>>> RStudio repositories.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Ken
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On 18 Dec 2019, at 10:50 pm, bruno apolloni <apoll...@di.unimi.it 
>>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it 
>>>>>>>>>>> <mailto:apoll...@di.unimi.it>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Dear All
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> among disasters of the new operating system Catalina, this one 
>>>>>>>>>>> concerns R.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Trying to install “regtools"  the answer by Crane R consolle is
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> unable to access index for repository 
>>>>>>>>>>> https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6> 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6> 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6 
>>>>>>>>>>> <https://cran.stat.unipd.it/bin/macosx/el-capitan/contrib/3.6>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> The same  for “devtools”. This happens on my Mac with Catalina OS. 
>>>>>>>>>>> The same installation on same Crane R but  on a laptop of colleauge 
>>>>>>>>>>> of mine endowed with previous OS (el captain) succeeds without any 
>>>>>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Any remedy to suggest?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Bruno
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