Joao Pedro W. de Azevedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> install.packages("quantreg")
> To my surprise this command did not work...
> Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/")...
It took me years to figure out how to get through our firewall, from my
Solaris 2.6 machine (now) running R-1.6.2. There were 3 crucial steps:
1) In my .Rprofile: options(download.file.method="wget")
(The default method "internal" does not seem to work for me.)
2) In my .cshrc: setenv http_proxy <some.proxy.server>:8000
3) <some.proxy.server> is NOT the name I find in my web browser! The web
browser knows the machine that serves "Proxy Auto-Configuration" files, but
I needed to get the name of an actual proxy server from our local guru.
Hope that helps!
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-- David Brahm ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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