R help - Sep 2008 - Question about --internet2 on Windows

Is there a way tell R that it should use --internet2 from within
a running R process?


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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> Is there a way tell R that it should use --internet2 from within
> a running R process?
Not without changing the source code.  If you read the sources, you will 
see that you need to set the C variable UseInternet2 *before* the ftp/http 
functions are called, and that variable is not exported from R.dll.

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