Hi, I have a student who's R seems to be unable to connect to the internet. I have verified that her computer has internet access that's working fine, but that R is not able to establish connections. For example, she cannot download packages for R from the URL site, cannot source webpages, or read.table from a webpage (all of these give errors of not being able to establish a connection). Right now I have shown her how to manually download the zip file for the package and install it from the local file, but she wants Bioconductor -- the instructions for which seem to require the usual internet access. Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions? (I've never had problems with the internet interface with R, so I don't even know where to start to try to fix it or even diagnose the problem). Could a firewall have this effect? Wireless? Her computer is running version R.2.3.1, on a Windows XP. Thanks, Elizabeth Purdom
It could well be a firewall issue. Try adding --internet2 as argument to Rgui.exe in the target field of the shortcut for Rgui. Andy From: Elizabeth Purdom> > Hi, > > I have a student who's R seems to be unable to connect to the > internet. I have verified that her computer has internet > access that's working fine, but that R is not able to > establish connections. For example, she cannot download > packages for R from the URL site, cannot source webpages, or > read.table from a webpage (all of these give errors of not > being able to establish a connection). Right now I have shown > her how to manually download the zip file for the package and > install it from the local file, but she wants Bioconductor -- > the instructions for which seem to require the usual internet > access. Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions? > (I've never had problems with the internet interface with R, > so I don't even know where to start to try to fix it or even > diagnose the problem). Could a firewall have this effect? Wireless? > > Her computer is running version R.2.3.1, on a Windows XP. > > Thanks, > Elizabeth Purdom > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >