package ‘remotes’ is not available (for R version 3.5.2)

[gellery-corning]

Fails to install backend worker

=> CACHED [showwhy_backend_worker 5/13] COPY ./requirements.r . 0.0s
=> ERROR [showwhy_backend_worker 6/13] RUN Rscript requirements.r 2.1s

[showwhy_backend_worker 6/13] RUN Rscript requirements.r:
#0 0.433 Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
#0 0.433 (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
#0 2.021 Warning: unable to access index for repository https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib:
#0 2.021 cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
#0 2.032 Warning message:
#0 2.032 package ‘remotes’ is not available (for R version 3.5.2)
#0 2.033 Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘remotes’
#0 2.033 Calls: :: ... tryCatch -> tryCatchList -> tryCatchOne ->
#0 2.033 Execution halted

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failed to solve: executor failed running [/bin/sh -c Rscript requirements.r]: exit code: 1
PS C:\todelete\github\showwhy> r --version