Professors Ripley and Lang, Thanks. Your fix was dead-on, setting the env var http_proxy solved my problem.
Mark > Sorry, my flaky connection (I am on a slow dialup) broke this up: here's > the rest. > > On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > > > > Now I know that xmlTreeParse uses the libxml facilities for downloading and > > > parsing off the web. Along with one of our network people, I did some > packet > > > sniffing and it looks like libxml doesn't go through our proxy server (it > tries > > > to directly connect to the above URL), which is the reason for the error. > Is > > > there anyway to force it through the proxy? Am I missing some setting or > > > option? If I download the xml file and parse it locally it works without > error. > > > > > > Please Note that the URL is valid and I can open it in my browser. Also > note > > > that I must start R with the --internet2 option so it'll use our proxy > server. > > > > That's your problem. You *can* use proxies without --internet2 (see > > ?download.file) and the XML code uses the standard version of the code. > > The first issue is that you have not configured R to use your proxy, so > please get that working. > > Issue two is that you may need to get an older version of XML compiled > against an older libxml, as the current one has not been tested. > > -- > 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://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
