Since you mention 'preferences', it seems you might be using Windows: the information you require is in the rw-FAQ.
Since the posting guide asked you to state your platform and read the relevant FAQ, that is the place to start: see the footer below. On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Alexandre Fabrice Letimier wrote: > Dear all, > I have some difficulties to get R to download the various packages. > It seems that it's a problem of the network that I'm on. I would need > to configure R so that I can put the proxy address and the port of > the network that I'm on. Can anyone explain to me how to change these > in R. I've looked at the preferences but couldn't find it there. > Thanks a lot for you help. > Regards, > Fabrice Letimier > -- > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.