On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM, jim holtman <[email protected]> wrote: > With the previous versions of R (my latest is 3.2.1) I have had no problem > getting through the proxy for the firewall at work. I installed the latest > version (3.2.2) and now cannot get through the firewall. There is the > session: > > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) -- "Fire Safety" > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. > Natural language support but running in an English locale > R is a collaborative project with many contributors. > Type 'contributors()' for more information and > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. > Type 'q()' to quit R. >> Sys.setenv(http_proxy = "http://10.254.16.12:3128/";, http_proxy_user = > "ask") >> utils:::menuInstallPkgs() > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : > cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv' > In addition: Warning message: > In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : > cannot open: HTTP status was '407 Proxy Authentication Required' > Warning: unable to access index for repository > https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran/src/contrib > Warning: unable to access index for repository > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib > Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = > type) : > no packages were specified >> sessionInfo() > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United > States.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_3.2.2 >> > > I was running with "--vanilla" on the RGUI. I have seen that there were > some other people having issues with 3.2.2 and proxies. Is there a fix out > there, or are there some other options I need to setup for 3.2.2 to access > through a proxy?
Try setInternet2() (or the equivalent command line flag). Michael ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
