On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Michael Bach wrote:
Dear colleagues:
In all probability my request is trivial, please bear with me if so. Problem:
installing packages (be it via the GUI or using "install.packages" meets with
a response "can't access index of ... repository ..." (it's in German, but
that's the gist). Since it works at home, I assume it's a firewall problem
here in the Medical School.
I found documentation that a proxy can be defined like so:
Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://USER:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80")
but that has no effect, even if I do it immediately after R's startup.
Possibly the reason is that that URL actually references a PAC file in my
case.
Then that will not work -- basically your IT people are making life
unnecessarily hard for you, and you should ask them for a solution.
Meanwhile, you could try installing wget and using
options(download.file.method = "wget"): see ?download.file. You will
still have to setup wget to work with your proxy, and I suggest you ask
your IT people to show you how.
Any help greatly appreciated! And thanks for a great GUI making R more
approachable.
Best, Michael
PS: R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
locale: de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8
attached base packages: stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached): tools_2.7.0
R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22) $`svn rev` "45424"
Mac OS X 10.5.2, PowerMac
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79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Visual illusions: <http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/>
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