Congratulations, Rhanks a lot to all those working on 1030. Installing a new version R is one of the better excuses to stop REAL work. Not to speak of new "lattice" version. On my platform (Win2000, Internet Explorer via Proxy), I could not get the new default method of "internal" to work. The manual says that the settings from Internet Explorer are used, but no connection (dial-up ADSL) is established, error message return immediately. update.packages() trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'' unable to resolve ''cran.r-project.org''. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'' The old wget-method works, the proxy line in wget.cfg is http_proxy = http://192.168.0.1:3128 And... sorry to say.... I am missing the old function.htlm. Having everything together really important for browsing, the search function is too limited for a fast overview. Dieter Menne ---------------- platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 3.0 year 2001 month 06 day 22 language R --------------------------------------- Dr. Dieter Menne Biomed Software 72074 T?bingen Tel (49) (7071) 52176 FAX (49) (7071) 55 10 46 dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de www.menne-biomed.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dieter Menne wrote:> Congratulations, > > Rhanks a lot to all those working on 1030. Installing > a new version R is one of the better excuses to stop > REAL work. Not to speak of new "lattice" version. > > On my platform (Win2000, Internet Explorer via Proxy), I could > not get the new default method of "internal" to work. The manual > says that the settings from Internet Explorer are used,What manual? Do you mean the help page? Read the CHANGES file and switch to internet2.dll. Sorry, the docs got left one step behind when late in the day I switched the defaults.> but no connection (dial-up ADSL) is established, error message > return immediately.It will not open an Internet connection. The following saying that your DNS is not finding the site. I suspect you need to open a connection first. Personally I detest programs that make connections without asking.> update.packages() > trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'' > unable to resolve ''cran.r-project.org''. > Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : > cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGESDon''t expect too much: an awful lot of this part of Windows does not work as documented on Windows 2000. You should be able to switch to internet2.dll and make use of your proxies. However, I changed away from that last week as on a very flaky connection, it was a lot less reliable. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Dear Prof. Ripley,> What manual? Do you mean the help page?download.file help page> Read the CHANGES file and switch to internet2.dll. Sorry, the docs > got left one step behind when late in the day I switched the defaults. > > > but no connection (dial-up ADSL) is established, error message > > return immediately. > > It will not open an Internet connection. The following saying that your > DNS is not finding the site.The proxy (on the same computer) handles the connection. I suspect "internal" does not know the tcp/ip address of my proxy, which I explicitely setfor wget. Any chance to set is manually?> You should be able to switch to > internet2.dll and make use of your proxies. However, I changed away from > that last week as on a very flaky connection, it was a lot less reliable.Could nor find any info how to "switch". InternetX.dll are in modules folder, should one of these be copied to bin? Or renamed? Dieter Menne -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2001-Jun-24 18:03 UTC
[R] update.packagesl (method=internal) on Windows
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> Don''t expect too much: an awful lot of this part of Windows does not work > as documented on Windows 2000. You should be able to switch to > internet2.dll and make use of your proxies. However, I changed away from > that last week as on a very flaky connection, it was a lot less reliable.I had no trouble with "install.packages" with my normal ISP at *home*, but there are quite a few simple things that don''t work when you''re behind a proxy server on Windows 2000. I''ve never been able to get R *or* the ActiveState Perl Package Manager to go through the proxy server where I work and automatically download files. Part of it has to do with the way proxy servers can be configured to protect you and your employer :-). I usually download what I want manually, which *does* work, and then install manually as well. It''s really for your own good, you know ... isn''t it nice that your employer protects you from that nasty old Internet? :-) -- znmeb at aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
MEB> *or* the ActiveState Perl Package Manager to go through the MEB> proxy server where I work and automatically download files. Part of it Works for me with three environment variables for a) the proxie, b) the username and c) the password for authentication. All faily well documented in the ActiveState docs that ship with ActivePerl. -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian D Ripley
2001-Jun-24 21:00 UTC
[R] update.packagesl (method=internal) on Windows
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dieter Menne wrote:> Dear Prof. Ripley, > > > What manual? Do you mean the help page? > download.file help page > > > Read the CHANGES file and switch to internet2.dll. Sorry, the docs > > got left one step behind when late in the day I switched the defaults. > > > > > but no connection (dial-up ADSL) is established, error message > > > return immediately. > > > > It will not open an Internet connection. The following saying that your > > DNS is not finding the site. > The proxy (on the same computer) handles the connection. I suspect "internal" > does not know the tcp/ip address of my proxy, which I explicitely setfor wget. > Any chance to set is manually? > > > You should be able to switch to > > internet2.dll and make use of your proxies. However, I changed away from > > that last week as on a very flaky connection, it was a lot less reliable. > > Could nor find any info how to "switch". InternetX.dll are in modules folder, > should one of these be copied to bin? Or renamed?CHANGES says The default internet module modules\internet.dll is built using basic WinSock calls. There is an alternative modules\internet2.dll which uses WinInet calls (and so needs Internet Explorer installed) which can be used as a replacement. so what is the difficulty? -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> There is an alternative modules\internet2.dll which uses > WinInet calls (and so needs Internet Explorer installed) which can be > used as a replacement. > > so what is the difficulty?"Can be used" == "I must explicitely switch to" Expecting something like download.file(..., module="internet2.dll") or options(imodule="internet2.dll") Dieter Menne -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian D Ripley
2001-Jun-25 06:58 UTC
[R] update.packagesl (method=internal) on Windows
If you read all of what I actually quote rather that snip bits out of context and compare them with things you were `expecting'', you will be less confused. On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dieter Menne wrote: [Important omission here, not just who and what you are quoting.]> > There is an alternative modules\internet2.dll which uses > > WinInet calls (and so needs Internet Explorer installed) which can be > > used as a replacement. > > > > so what is the difficulty? > > "Can be used" == "I must explicitely switch to" > > Expecting something like > > download.file(..., module="internet2.dll") > or > options(imodule="internet2.dll") > > > Dieter Menne >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._