R help - Jun 2007 - Proxy Under Mac OS X

Dear R programmers,

I can only config. proxy under Mac OS X terminal and launch R under Terminal by

Terminal:

export http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port"

Under R:
>chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE)
>update.packages()
I don't know how to config this in R for Mac OS X Aqua GUI.
I checked the relevant document but no specific steps for Mac OS X.

Regards,
Ch Chan



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The most 'relevant document' is ?download.file, and there is AFAIK 
nothing specific to MacOS X about the code (and I did write it).

You can use

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port")

at the start of your R session, or use

http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port"

in your ~/.Renviron file (see 'An Introduction to R' and ?Startup).


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Chung-hong Chan wrote:
> Dear R programmers,
>
> I can only config. proxy under Mac OS X terminal and launch R under 
> Terminal by
>
> Terminal:
>
> export http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port"
>
> Under R:
>
>> chooseCRANmirror(graphics=FALSE)
>> update.packages()
>
> I don't know how to config this in R for Mac OS X Aqua GUI.
> I checked the relevant document but no specific steps for Mac OS X.
>
> Regards,
> Ch Chan
>
>
>
>
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