Hello @michael_bordeleau
Our setup script installs R using conda. You can run the following to install R with some necessary packages
conda install --yes -c conda-forge \
'r-base=4.0.3' \
'r-caret=6.*' \
'r-crayon=1.4*' \
'r-devtools=2.3*' \
'r-forecast=8.13*' \
'r-hexbin=1.28*' \
'r-htmltools=0.5*' \
'r-htmlwidgets=1.5*' \
'r-irkernel=1.1*' \
'r-nycflights13=1.0*' \
'r-randomforest=4.6*' \
'r-rcurl=1.98*' \
'r-rmarkdown=2.6*' \
'r-rodbc=1.3*' \
'r-rsqlite=2.2*' \
'r-shiny=1.6*' \
'r-tidyverse=1.3*' \
'unixodbc=2.3.*' \
'r-tidymodels=0.1*'
In case you don’t have conda installed, you can download it from Index of /archive
Coming to the package installation, can you try specifying the cran mirror to use? For example something like
install.packages('caret', repos='http://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/')
As you might have noticed already, internet access is restricted in the workspace. You can find the list of allowed domains at https://portal.addi.ad-datainitiative.org/security. We will work with AD workbench team to get the repositories whitelisted in the meantime.