similar to: update.packages with proxy?

Dear R users, I am using R Version 1.3.0 (2001-06-22) under Windows 2000 Professional (SP 2). When I try "Packages"->"Update packages from CRAN" the result is something like trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org'. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES",

I would like to use the getBioC.R script from http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R to install the biobase packages. Unfortunately, url() and download.file() die when trying to talk to my proxy: > getBioC("exprs") connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to 'gproxy1.pfizer.com'. connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to

I would like to use the getBioC.R script from http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R to install the biobase packages. Unfortunately, url() and download.file() die when trying to talk to my proxy: > getBioC("exprs") connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to 'gproxy1.pfizer.com'. connect: Cannot assign requested address unable to connect to

There have been quite a few questions recently about this, so I have tried to gather experience. I set up a proxy using Apache2 (a very common server) behind our firewall and tried various authentication approaches. One comment: all the methods return error messages when they fail. Please don't report `it doesn't work' without the full details. 1) For a proxy that authenticates

Hi all, my uni has recently switched to using a proxy (with password) for accessing Web pages outside the uni. I have since found that "update packages" etc no longer seem to work from R. I have tried to fix this problem in two ways:- 1) renaming internet2.dll to internet.dll in the "Modeules" folder and proceeding as usual. When I tried "update packages" from the

gday R gurus, I've never attempted to use download.file before on my win2k machine but this version 1.4 looks exciting. However, I'm not getting something right. I've passed my R shortcut --internet2 and I can tell it's using the wininet calls because it's asking about authentication but how do I tell it my username/password? The help file only talks about user/pw for non

Hi there I'm trying to configure R to get access to the internet. Using the Internet Explorer a proxy .pac script is used. Reading some older threads I found that I can use the --internet2 option. When choosing a mirror I get the error: "407 Proxy Authentication Required". This seems reasonable since I have to log in when using the IE as well. But where do I enter username and

Dear R staff I'm a osu Ph.D. I have a problem with Linux. I usually start R on Windows OS by dos shell: c:\Program Files\R\R-2.2.1\bin\Rgui.exe --internet2 With no script --internet2 i can't connect to bioconductor to download bioconductor packages. A real problem is that I can't do this with Linux: R --internet2 command doesn't work. My system administrator doesn't

Hi, I'm using: platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 1 minor 5.1 year 2002 month 06 day 17 language R and I would like to apply: > update.packages() trying URL

Hello, I a proxy connection to the internet, so I renamed the file 'internet2.dll' to 'internet.dll' in the Module subdirectory as suggested in Changes. But I still get an error when trying to update packages: 'Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows' Any hint would be appreciated. I know this has been discussed before but I do not seem to find the

For the record. -----Original Message----- From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:21 PM To: Warnes, Gregory R Cc: 'r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch' Subject: RE: [R] Problems with url/download and http_proxy The port is not supposed to be required, so rather than fix the docs can anyone fix the problem? On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Warnes, Gregory R

This does seem to fix my problem: > Sys.getenv("http_proxy") http_proxy "http://gproxy1.pfizer.com/" > url("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES",'r') description "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES" class

Could somebody please assist with the problem I have now. At our university certain changes have been made to users regarding accessing the internet. I have re-installed the (current) version of R, using custom settings (for Windows XP), choosing amongst other things "Internet2" somewhere. Now, when I wish to install new packages, I first have to select a CRAN mirror. R gives me a list

Hi Thanks again to Greg, and Prof Ripley. Greg, I was trying to send you an email, but has been unsuccessful. Speaking to someone from our IT deparment, I am trying to follow your advice to implement the settings to my computer (using Windows), by using Control Panel. I have selected System in Control Panel and chose System, Advanced tab, Environmental Variables, and created the user variables:

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

hi, as I'm using R at Dell (where I am working), I manage to install packages from web, but there is a web proxy, which is pretty boring. R asks me to enter an active directory login/password, that would normally auth me through the web proxy, but it doesn't work. I'm looking forward for your help. Sorry if I used bad english. Any ideas ? Laurent -- «Un peu d'internationalisme

Hi all, An offline communication with B. Ripley gives the answer for whoever else may have the similar problem: Run R with a flag: Rgui --internet2 or Rterm --internet2 By the way, as Brian pointed out, this information can be found at R for Windows FAQ on cran website. Regards, Jonathan > -----Original Message----- > From: LI,JONATHAN (A-Labs,ex1) > Sent: Thursday, March 28,

I've added to R-devel the ability to use download.file() and url() to https: URLs, *only* if --internet2 is used on Windows. This uses the Internet Explorer internals, and only works if the certificate is accepted (so e.g. does not work for https://svn.r-project.org). Now I use IE (and Windows for that matter) only when really necessary, and Firefox has simple ways to permanently accept

Hi I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem: After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the built-in menu, I run into the following error message. >

Dear R users, I have a problem in the configuration of R: I just changed university, and my conection to the net is via a password, which permits me to access the packages with no problem via the internet explorer (version 6). I just updated R to R 1.81, and I cannot download nether upgrade packages (and many are not working with the update!!!). I have been looking in the help and emails, and