R help - May 2005 - Why can't I download "window binary" zip packages

Hello there,

I tried so many times to download windows binary zip package but it told 
me that I don't have the access to do so. It worked for me a few months 
ago. Please help me with it.

Thank you

Lisa Wang Msc.
Princess Margaret Hospital
Toronto , Canada
tel: (416) 946 4501 ext.5201

Lisa Wang wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I tried so many times to download windows binary zip package but it told 
> me that I don't have the access to do so. It worked for me a few months
> ago. Please help me with it.
You need to talk to one of your system administrators.  R won't tell you 
that you don't have access, but your own system might.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Lisa Wang Msc.
> Princess Margaret Hospital
> Toronto , Canada
> tel: (416) 946 4501 ext.5201
> 
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You did not mention your specs, but here's how I do it on my Win2K machine,
behind a firewall, behind a proxy.

1-
If you're behind a proxy, load R through a batch file that loads
internet2.dll.  To do so, open a notepad document.  Write:

PATH C:\Program Files\R\rw2010\bin
START Rgui --internet2

Save your file as "r.cmd" in your C:\Program Files\R\rw2010\bin
directory

FYI, internet2.dll makes R access the internet the same way your internet
explorer does.

2-
Here's the code I use to download and extract a zip file from the net. 

download.file("http://www.cftc.gov/files/dea/history/deacot2005.zip",
"c:/tmp/monthly/deacot2005.zip", 
"internal", quiet = FALSE, mode = "wb",cacheOK = TRUE)
unzipped<-zip.file.extract("c:/tmp/monthly/annual.txt", zipname
"deacot2005.zip")


Regards,

Pierre Lapointe
Assistant Market Strategist
National Bank Financial



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