download.file in chunk

[larssk]

I have a minor problem with download.file() using method = 'auto' when running it from within learnr code chunks. The same code works in a normal Rmd documents, as well as in terminal and r-studio console. Example code

download.file("https://files.rcsb.org/download/1hel.pdb", "test.pdb", method = "auto")

fails with: "cannot open URL 'https://files.rcsb.org/download/1hel.pdb'" in learnr only.

method = 'curl' works with learnr but the problem is that the download function is embedded in a package so it's not trivial to change the method argument. Any thoughts on how I can get this to work in learnr?