How can I get past this 'SSL connect error' when using jsonlite::fromJSON in R?

Question

Issue

I get the following error whenever I run

all_companies <- jsonlite::fromJSON("https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json")

Warning: URL 'https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json': status was 'SSL connect error'Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : 
  cannot open the connection to 'https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json'

Thank you in advance for any help!

What I've tried

I am trying to run this on a new work computer, it runs fine on my old work computer but the new one gives me this error.

• It seems the difference causing this issue is that I am using {jsonlite} 1.8.2 on my new computer and 1.8.0 on my old computer. Deep in the definition of the fromJSON() function, the working version seems to use curl::curl() to establish a connection whereas the not-working version uses base::url().

• The following example line from the help documentation runs fine on the new computer with version 1.8.2

data1 <- fromJSON("https://api.github.com/users/hadley/orgs")

• I can access the JSON file I am trying to read on an internet browser.

• I do not have permission to install Rtools on my computer to be able to compile an older version of {jsonlite}.