On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11-Sep-06 Gregor Gorjanc wrote: > > It seems that 'internal' method was used (I use R 2.3.1 under > > Linux) as indicated in help page of download.file. I could > > use wget or lynx methods, but these two must be available, > > so this is not really portable. Are there any other options > > for testing internet access? I am thinking that this might be > > more relevant for R-devel. I will wait a bit > > before moving there.
Check out tests/internet.R. nsl() checks if you can resolve host names, which has worked well enough there. -- 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.
