R snippets not working in knime on MacOS

[mlauber71]

@MartinStoves welcome to the KNIME forum. This is an error that is bugging the R nodes on macOS for quite some time. It seems they are not able to connect to the internet. On Windows with proxy it was successful.

using baseballr in Knime

Phew. That’s a weird one. It seems to be the same issue as here: Table to R not able to load library. Our R Snippet node apparently cannot connect to the internet to download data. If I run the script from the node in a standalone R it works without problems, and also in the community (MPI) R snippet node. If I run the command player_stats <- playerid_lookup("Trout", "Mike") in a standalone R session, save the result to a table, and replace the line in the R Snippet node by player_stats <- rea…

The R community nodes seem to work just fine:

So the option would be to try and use them, or download the data externally (maybe with a GET function) or use an older version of the package that would still have the data ‘offline’.

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