I thought I would post this as an answer to anyone having problems installing papaja (or other packages) when behind a firewall that doesn't allow github
The problem
For reasons I dont fully understand, the only way I am able to use github R packages is to download them into my github desktop and then use them using the remotes::install_local("C:\\[path]\\GitHub\\papaja")
function. This has worked for all the R packages available from github (CRAN installations are fine).
However this is not the case with papaja
which gives me the error:
'Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = h) :
Failed to connect to api.github.com port 443: Connection refused'
I suspect this is because a call is being made to github during the package installation (otherwise why dont I get this issue with all of the other packages I've installed this way).