Initially, I have pre-downloaded all the raw files for meta-analysis from GEO in the wd. Then, I run the following code:

> library(crossmeta)
> # specify where data will be downloaded
> data_dir <- file.path(getwd())
> # gather all GSEs
> gse_names  <- c("GSE88", "GSE89", "GSE3167")
> get_raw(gse_names, data_dir)
> esets <- load_raw(gse_names, data_dir)

After get_raw, the .cel files are successfully extracted from .tar raw files. But, after load_raw I get the following error message:

https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSEnnn/GSE88/matrix/
Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : 
  error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable)  : 
  unable to find an inherited method for function ‘annotation’ for signature ‘"character"’

My sessionInfo() are:

R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19041)
crossmeta_1.16.1    GEOquery_2.58.0     Biobase_2.50.0 

The traceback() information are:

8: stop(gettextf("unable to find an inherited method for function %s for signature %s", 
       sQuote(fdef@generic), sQuote(cnames)), domain = NA)
7: (function (classes, fdef, mtable) 
   {
       methods <- .findInheritedMethods(classes, fdef, mtable)
       if (length(methods) == 1L) 
           return(methods[[1L]])
       else if (length(methods) == 0L) {
           cnames <- paste0("\"", vapply(classes, as.character, 
               ""), "\"", collapse = ", ")
           stop(gettextf("unable to find an inherited method for function %s for signature %s", 
               sQuote(fdef@generic), sQuote(cnames)), domain = NA)
       }
       else stop("Internal error in finding inherited methods; didn't return a unique method", 
           domain = NA)
   })(list("character"), new("standardGeneric", .Data = function (object, 
       ...) 
   standardGeneric("annotation"), generic = structure("annotation", package = "BiocGenerics"), 
       package = "BiocGenerics", group = list(), valueClass = character(0), 
       signature = "object", default = NULL, skeleton = (function (object, 
           ...) 
       stop("invalid call in method dispatch to 'annotation' (no default method)", 
           domain = NA))(object, ...)), <environment>)
6: FUN(X[[i]], ...)
5: lapply(X = X, FUN = FUN, ...)
4: sapply(eset, Biobase::annotation)
3: paste0(sapply(eset, Biobase::annotation), ".soft", collapse = "|")
2: load_plat(gse_name, data_dir, gpl_dir, ensql)
1: load_raw(gse_names, data_dir)