Thanks for the ideas! Marc: I checked both of my installed browsers (IE8 and Firefox3.5.7), and neither browser shows a proxy having been configured... Any other thoughts?
Richard: I tried calling setInternet2(), and received the following output (and the initial problem persists): > setInternet2() [1] FALSE Warning message: In setInternet2() : internet routines were already initialized -- I'm open to further suggestions! Thanks again, Jonathan On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:34 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER <r...@temple.edu> wrote: > In addition to Marc's comments, you might want to use > setInternet2() > > I am pretty sure this will get you past a firewall to r-project.org. > > I think it might also get you access to 127.0.0.1. > Access to 127.0.0.1 is not explicitly mentioned in the help file > ?setInternet2 > > Rich > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.