R help - Jul 2010 - SAM program and R mirror - which port to open?

To whom this may concern,

I am having issues installing a program called "SAM" (Statistical
Analysis of Microarrays) which is an excel add in and requires the use of R. Due
to the firewall at my hospital, R cannot connect to a mirror and therefore
cannot install necessary files for the complete installation of SAM. The IT
department has asked me which "port" needs to be opened so I can
connect to a mirror.

Thank you for your help,

Cheers,
Katie


Katie Ashton PhD
HMRI Bogner Cancer Research Fellow
HMRI, Room 3642
Level 3, John Hunter Hospital
Lookout Rd
New Lambton Heights
NSW, 2305
Australia
Ph. +61 2 498 55663
Fax +61 2 498 55895
The University of Newcastle CRICOS Provider code: 00109J.

Assuming you are on Windows, you can probably do this within R, without
involving the IT department.

?setInternet2

for the details and discussion.  Enter the line

setInternet2(use = TRUE)
before doing the install.packages()



On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Katie Ashton
<Katie.Ashton@newcastle.edu.au>wrote:
> To whom this may concern,
>
> I am having issues installing a program called "SAM" (Statistical
Analysis
> of Microarrays) which is an excel add in and requires the use of R. Due to
> the firewall at my hospital, R cannot connect to a mirror and therefore
> cannot install necessary files for the complete installation of SAM. The IT
> department has asked me which "port" needs to be opened so I can
connect to
> a mirror.
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Cheers,
> Katie
>
>
> Katie Ashton PhD
> HMRI Bogner Cancer Research Fellow
> HMRI, Room 3642
> Level 3, John Hunter Hospital
> Lookout Rd
> New Lambton Heights
> NSW, 2305
> Australia
> Ph. +61 2 498 55663
> Fax +61 2 498 55895
> The University of Newcastle CRICOS Provider code: 00109J.
>
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