Curl error when installing Bioconductor packages with Microsoft R Open 3.5.0 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?
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.