rfishbase version issue

[tsippel10]

I am having an issue installing a rfishbase version 21.06, as recommended by the FishLife package that depends on it. When loading FishLife I get this message.

###########################################################################################
Loading package FishLife, developed by James Thorson for the National Marine Fisheries Service
For details and citation guidance, please see http://github.com/James-Thorson-NOAA/FishLife/
###########################################################################################
Please install an earlier version of rfishbase, e.g. using by running:
remotes::install_github( 'ropensci/[email protected]', force=TRUE )

And then when I try to install that recommended version of rfishbase I get the following.

remotes::install_github('ropensci/[email protected]', force=TRUE)
Downloading GitHub repo ropensci/[email protected]
Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
cannot open URL 'https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/rfishbase/tarball/fb-21.06'

─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14 ucrt)
os Windows 11 x64 (build 22621)
system x86_64, mingw32
ui RStudio
language (EN)
collate English_United States.utf8
ctype English_United States.utf8
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2024-08-08
rstudio 2024.04.2+764 Chocolate Cosmos (desktop)
pandoc NA

─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
package * version date (UTC) lib source
cachem 1.1.0 2024-05-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
cli 3.6.3 2024-06-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
crayon 1.5.3 2024-06-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
DBI 1.2.3 2024-06-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
dbplyr 2.5.0 2024-03-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
devtools 2.4.5 2022-10-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
digest 0.6.36 2024-06-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
dplyr 1.1.4 2023-11-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
ellipsis 0.3.2 2021-04-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
fansi 1.0.6 2023-12-08 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
fastmap 1.2.0 2024-05-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
fs 1.6.4 2024-04-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
generics 0.1.3 2022-07-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
glue 1.7.0 2024-01-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
hms 1.1.3 2023-03-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
htmltools 0.5.8.1 2024-04-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
htmlwidgets 1.6.4 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
httpuv 1.6.15 2024-03-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
later 1.3.2 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
lifecycle 1.0.4 2023-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
magrittr 2.0.3 2022-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
memoise 2.0.1 2021-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
mime 0.12 2021-09-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
miniUI 0.1.1.1 2018-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
pillar 1.9.0 2023-03-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
pkgbuild 1.4.4 2024-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
pkgload 1.4.0 2024-06-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
prettyunits 1.2.0 2023-09-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
profvis 0.3.8 2023-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
progress 1.2.3 2023-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
promises 1.3.0 2024-04-05 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
purrr 1.0.2 2023-08-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
R6 2.5.1 2021-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
Rcpp 1.0.13 2024-07-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
readr 2.1.5 2024-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
remotes 2.5.0 2024-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
rfishbase * 4.1.2 2023-06-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
rlang 1.1.4 2024-06-04 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
rstudioapi 0.16.0 2024-03-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
sessioninfo 1.2.2 2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
shiny 1.9.0 2024-07-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
stringi 1.8.4 2024-05-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
stringr 1.5.1 2023-11-14 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
tibble 3.2.1 2023-03-20 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
tidyselect 1.2.1 2024-03-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
tzdb 0.4.0 2023-05-12 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
urlchecker 1.0.1 2021-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
usethis 3.0.0 2024-07-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
utf8 1.2.4 2023-10-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
vctrs 0.6.5 2023-12-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
xtable 1.8-4 2019-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)

[1] C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/Programs/R/R-4.4.1/library

[cboettig]

apologies but I cannot reproduce this. Perhaps your network firewall is blocking access? Can you access the link mentioned in the trace above directly? (https://api.github.com/repos/ropensci/rfishbase/tarball/fb-21.06)