Hello Professor If you are suggesting that I am simply missing the "http://"; part of my cache URL, or that I am missing a trailing "/", then I pre-empted this response and it still doesn't work.
I have tried setting both http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY to all of: wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 http://wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080/ http://wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080/ and I still get the same response - R cannot open the URL. And yes, that is thw right proxy address, I copied it straight from Netscape on the same computer, and Netscape connects to the internet fine. Thanks Mick -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 July 2003 13:17 To: michael watson (IAH-C) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' Subject: Re: [R] R won't connect to the internet on Linux! On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > OK, I really am struggling with this one! Forgive me if I am being stupid.... > I am running R 1.7.1 on Suse Linux 8.1. I connect to the internet > through a proxy so I have: > > IAHC-LINUX03:~ # echo $http_proxy > wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 > IAHC-LINUX03:~ # echo $HTTP_PROXY > wwwcache.bbsrc.ac.uk:8080 > > just in case ;-) > > SO, i go into R and I get: > > > source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R";) > unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80. > Error in file(file, "r") : cannot open URL `http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R' > > OK so is R just not picking up my proxy setting? Your setting is wrong, so it is being ignored. The help page says quite explicitly The form of `"http_proxy"' should be `"http://proxy.dom.com/";' or `"http://proxy.dom.com:8080/";' where the port defaults to `80' and the trailing slash may be omitted. > It seems to be trying > port 80 on something, and I have specifically set it to port 8080 in my > environment variables. As far as I can see I have followed the > reference manual suggestion, so does anyone else have one? The problem is in your seeing, it seems. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
