Ben,

I want to make sure I understand what you are trying to do. You are trying to write an R script which will be run on your server (xnight.primate.wisc.edu). This script which will load the RLabkey package and will then query the LabKey server using the R API.

The RLabkey package does work with LabKey servers running SSL and is currently in use with a number of SSL servers.

The error message "Couldn't resolve host 'xnight.primate.wisc.edu'" is interesting. This usually means that R could not resolve an IP address for the name xnight.primate.wisc.edu. If you log onto the server xnight and run

   curl https://xnight.primate.wisc.edu:8443/labkey

do you get a response from the server?

Thank you,

Brian Connolly