Solution for no connection with Windows 7/8 and IE11

[edwindj]

The security certificates on https://opendata.cbs.nl have been updated, causing that IE11 and Windows 7 and Windows 8 have trouble connecting to the open data server.

solution

Add the following lines to your R script (before making any calls with cbsodataR

Sys.setenv(CURL_SSL_BACKEND = "openssl")
options("url.method" = "libcurl")

Thanks to Jasper Dupont for reporting the issue and problem.