[R] R crash with internet2.dll

Kenneth Cabrera
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:14:09 -0000

Dear Dominik:

You can read in the CHANGES file the way to use internet2, that is
different from
version rw1040.
rw1040
=====internet2.dll (see changes for rw1030) must be selected by the
--internet2 flag.


Grathwohl,Dominik,LAUSANNE,NRC/NT wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using:
>
>platform i386-pc-mingw32
>arch     i386
>os       mingw32
>system   i386, mingw32
>status
>major    1
>minor    5.1
>year     2002
>month    06
>day      17
>language R
>
>and I would like to apply:
>
>
>>update.packages()
>>
>>
>trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>unable to connect to 'vevprx21.nestec.ch'.
>Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep =
"/"),  :
>        cannot open URL
>`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>
>This error is already described in the R-help archive.
>One of several threads:
>http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/01c/0950.html
>Having a well working Internet Explorer 5 on my NT and it sounds as the
>perfect solution
>for my problem to rename internet2.dll to internet.dll, to avoid the entire
>proxy configuration.
>Doing so, R crashes!
>What is wrong with internet2.dll?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Dominik
>
>
>Dominik Grathwohl
>Biostatistician
>Nestl? Research Center
>PO Box 44, CH-1000 Lausanne 26
>Phone: + 41 21 785 8034
>Fax: + 41 21 785 8556
>e-mail: dominik.grathwohl at rdls.nestle.com
>
>
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Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
Unviersidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medell?n
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales y Ecolog?a
Escuela de Geociencias
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