Hi, I have R installed on SuSE. I am trying to find out as to where is the proxy information stored and how it is stored. I was trying to run the install.package("...") command on the R prompt and it complained that it could not find the URL http://cran.... Thank you, Dipti -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- /\ Dipti Kamdar \\ \ Solution Engineering \ \\ / Customer Advocacy & Solutions / \/ / / / / \//\ Sun Microsystems, Inc. \//\ / / Phone:(650) 786-8907 / Internal: x88907 / / /\ / Email: dipti.kamdar at sun.com / \\ \ \ \\ \/
RTFM, specifically ?download.file. On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Dipti Kamdar wrote:> I have R installed on SuSE. > I am trying to find out as to where is the proxy information > stored and how it is stored.It is not `stored' it is looked up.> I was trying to run the install.package("...") command on > the R prompt and it complained that it could not find the URL > http://cran....-- 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 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Dipti Kamdar wrote:> Hi, > I have R installed on SuSE. > I am trying to find out as to where is the proxy information > stored and how it is stored. > I was trying to run the install.package("...") command on > the R prompt and it complained that it could not find the URL > http://cran.... > Thank you, > DiptiIf you are having proxy-related problems on SuSE this may be related to the fact that SuSE shell startup scripts on your system may define the environment variable no_proxy. This was discussed in a thread back in July; see for example https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-July/035410.html luke -- Luke Tierney University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: luke at stat.uiowa.edu Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu