It's documented in ?download.file, and it isn't equivalent to
--internet2
but to the standard internet support under Windows (which is more
flexible).
Full text search on Windows or grepping the help files on Linux would have
found this for you.
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ron Ophir wrote:
> Where do I define the proxy in R on linux platform (something equivalent
> to --internet2 in windows)?
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