Yes, corporate firewall can be a real pain at times. Duncan does have a point that many users (especially new ones) will not know what this is for.
Would it be possible to test during the installation process if --internet2 is suitable and ask for confirmation from the user. A message as follows may suffice "The installation process has detected that you might be behind a firewall which could affect downloading of new packages. If this is true, a modification(?) will be made." [Yes/No] On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 21:51, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:18:43 -0400, "Liaw, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote : > > >[Not sure if such wishlist item should go to R-help or R-devel...] > > > >It would be nice if an option can be added to the R for Windows installer > >that will add the --internet2 option to the command line in the shortcut > >that gets created. Also, is it possible to make that an option that can be > >set at the R prompt, or perhaps even better, as the default no matter > >how/where R is started? For those of us behind corporate firewalls, life > >w/o --internet2 is not terribly pleasant, and naÃve users are too naÃve to > >remember that... > > It would be easy to put there, but I can't for the life of me figure > out how I would document it. If a user is too naive to know to use it > when running R, how would they know which choice to make when > installing it? > > Alternatively, if you know a test that could determine whether > --internet2 is desirable, perhaps the installer could use that. > > As to the idea of switching at the R prompt or as a global > configuration option: those are probably possible, possibly tricky, > patches to do them will be considered. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
