text: user285: I'm trying to install Bioconductor packages with Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 seems to fail not sure what is the issue.
  This is what I'm trying to do 
  source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
  biocLite("BiocInstaller")
  
  But I keep getting an error about "curl" had non-zero exit. 
  How can I install the packages of Bioconductor?
  
  user3119: I can't comment yet but from what you said it seems that you need to install additional libraries like the one you mentioned: "curl".
  from the R terminal you should type:
  install.packages("curl")
  
  then R will install the package. Not sure if there are some other dependencies. If yes R will return you some error message in which there are some package names you need to install.
  EDIT:
  of course, after installing all the required packages you should be able to install biocLite too.
  
original_text: 285: <p>I'm trying to install Bioconductor packages with Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 seems to fail not sure what is the issue.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I'm trying to do </p>
  
  <pre><code>source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
  biocLite("BiocInstaller")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I keep getting an error about "curl" had non-zero exit. 
  How can I install the packages of Bioconductor?</p>
   3119: <p>I can't comment yet but from what you said it seems that you need to install additional libraries like the one you mentioned: "curl".</p>
  
  <p>from the R terminal you should type:</p>
  
  <pre><code>install.packages("curl")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then R will install the package. Not sure if there are some other dependencies. If yes R will return you some error message in which there are some package names you need to install.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p>of course, after installing all the required packages you should be able to install biocLite too.</p>
  