devtools problem on MacOS 10.14.6

On Feb 25, 2021, at 07:48, Tim Dickinson <tim.dickinson at utoronto.ca> wrote:

Hi--- I would like to install the new package lcvplants (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-00702-z.pdf, https://idiv-biodiversity.github.io/lcvplants/articles/taxonomic_resolution_using_lcplants.html) and need to use devtools to do so.

I don't seem to be able to install devtools:

R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) -- "Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out"
Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)

install.packages("devtools")

Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib:
  cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0:
  cannot open URL 'http://cran.utstat.utoronto.ca/bin/macosx/contrib/4.0/PACKAGES'
Warning message:
package ?devtools? is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages 

and same result after updating...
R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15) -- "Lost Library Book"
Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)

My thanks to anyone who can suggest a way forward!

---tad.

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