Hi all; I?m working with the latest version of R under Win2000. My internet connection (using a proxy) requires my username and password. In this situation I?m not able to update the packages from CRAN (unless I download and install them from a local drive). I tried looking at information on the list servers but I couldn?t figure out how to change 'environment variables' or something like that. I also tried renaming the files internet2.dll to internet.dll and so on. Any 'new' idea how to solve this situation. Thanks in advance Christian Mora
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:56:38 -0400, christian_mora at vtr.net wrote :>Hi all; > >I?m working with the latest version of R under Win2000. My internet connection >(using a proxy) requires my username and password. In this situation I?m >not able to update the packages from CRAN (unless I download and install >them from a local drive). I tried looking at information on the list servers >but I couldn?t figure out how to change 'environment variables' or something >like that. I also tried renaming the files internet2.dll to internet.dll >and so on. Any 'new' idea how to solve this situation.Have you tried the methods described in the "FAQ on R for Windows" (item 2.17 in version 1.8.1)? Duncan Murdoch
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:56:38AM -0400, christian_mora at vtr.net wrote:> Hi all; > > I?m working with the latest version of R under Win2000. My internet connection > (using a proxy) requires my username and password. In this situation I?m > not able to update the packages from CRAN (unless I download and install > them from a local drive). I tried looking at information on the list servers > but I couldn?t figure out how to change 'environment variables' or something > like that. I also tried renaming the files internet2.dll to internet.dll > and so on. Any 'new' idea how to solve this situation.See the 'R on Windows' FAQ, Section 2.17. Personally, I use http_proxy="....." in the file ~/.Renviron -- i.e. a file called .Renviron in the directory pointed to by the $HOME env. variable. Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page