On 14/01/2015 21:37, jose.nunez-zul...@barclays.com wrote:
Hello R-users,
I have no practical experience with the R language itself but I've been tasked
to install it behind a corporate firewall. Basic installation seems sane but
when my user tries to install a custom library like this:
install.packages("ggplot2")
Installing package into '/home/myuser/rlibs'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib
Warning message:
package 'ggplot2' is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
See no progress and eventually nothing gets downloaded into my custom
directory. My question is, there is a way to add verbosity to R to see if the
network proxy setting are working correctly (I can get files using 'wget'
without problems under the same account)?
Yes.
But please follow the posting guide and give the 'at a minimum'
information required as this area does depend on the OS. I will guess
(you did not say) this is not Windows.
Be aware what the posting guide says about doing your own homework. The
help for install.packages says
See ‘download.file’ for how to handle proxies and other options to
monitor file transfers.
and the referenced help file may well answer your question.
More details about my installation below:
1) I'm behind a firewall with http proxy access. I have no root and made a
local installation
2) Contents of my ~/.Renviron:
R_LIBS=/home/myuser/rlibs
3) Contents of ~/.Rprofile:
r <- getOption("repos") # hard code the US repo for CRAN
r["CRAN"] <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org";
options(repos = r)
rm(r)
4) Http environment variable proxy is set (like export http_proxy=XXXXproxy.XXXX.com. I
can see it if I do 'Sys.getenv("http_proxy")' from inside the R prompt)
NOTE: I managed to install libraries 'by hand' but for module that have
dependencies this doesn't work:
cd /home/$USER/rlibs/; wget
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/timeDate_3011.99.tar.gz;
/mylocal/R-3.1.2/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l /localrdir timeDate_3011.99.tar.gz
I apologize if this is not the correct list (went through all of them, WIKI and
other groups looking for an answer to this issue without much luck).
Thanks,
--Jose
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
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