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2009 Jul 31
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Trouble with R proxy
...have checked my environment and the proxy settings are in line with what I
expected:
> Sys.getenv("http_proxy")
http_proxy
"http://proxy-lon2.macbank"
> Sys.getenv("USERNAME")
USERNAME
"epieters"
I then use a quantmod function, getSymols("GOOG"). I am very close to
getting a result, because I am promted with a input box for a username and
password. Unfortunately I get the following error once I have entered both:
Proxy authentication failed:
please re-enter the credentials or hit Cancel
Error in download.file(pas...