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R-latest.pkg link returning a 403 Forbidden error

Patrick,

it works just fine for me: 

$ curl -s -v -o /dev/null https://mac.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-latest.pkg 
*   Trying 184.172.231.50...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to mac.r-project.org (184.172.231.50) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@STRENGTH
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
[...]
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256
* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=mac.r-project.org
*  start date: Jan 26 18:55:18 2020 GMT
*  expire date: Apr 25 18:55:18 2020 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "mac.r-project.org" matched cert's "mac.r-project.org"
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 19:31:51 GMT
< Server: Apache
< Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:09:32 GMT
< ETag: "4d4a72f-599bea4d7df00"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 81045295
< 

Please make sure you clear your caches and try directly without proxies.

Cheers,
Simon