Lance French

Seems highly likely that this is related to the [deprecation of Atlassian account passwords for Basic Authentication with the Bitbucket API or Git over HTTPS](https://bitbucket.org/blog/deprecating-atlassian-account-password-for-bitbucket-api-and-git-activity) that went into effect March...

Technically, no, I would not expect the change to basic auth to affect cloning of repositories marked publicly accessible. (I should read more carefully!) Seems like the [actual function](https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/918c506609858895177c02c4f38706d31bb843d2/R/install-bitbucket.R#L189-L198) should...