Hello all,
Sorry about the first post, I forgot to mention that I am using R on Linux. As
Brian suggested I looked closely into the R help and tried the verbose option
( install.packages(ggplot2, verbose = 'true')) but it wasn't very helpful.
But after checking 'help(download.file)' I found than my format of the variable
http_proxy was wrong and needed to be like this (protocol and port):
http_proxy=http://myproxy.com:80
Downloads now work fine, I hope this saves some time to the next person dealing
with this issue.
Thanks for the help!
--Jose
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Message: 26
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:37:17 -0500
From: jose.nunez-zul...@barclays.com
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Help installing packages with dependencies for R, behind
corporate firewall
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Hello R-users,
I have no practical experience with the R language itself but I've been tasked
to install it behind a corporate firewall. Basic installation seems sane but
when my user tries to install a custom library like this:
install.packages(ggplot2)
Installing package into '/home/myuser/rlibs'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
Warning: unable to access index for repository
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib
Warning message:
package 'ggplot2' is not available (for R version 3.1.2)
See no progress and eventually nothing gets downloaded into my custom
directory. My question is, there is a way to add verbosity to R to see if the
network proxy setting are working correctly (I can get files using 'wget'
without problems under the same account)?
More details about my installation below:
1) I'm behind a firewall with http proxy access. I have no root and made a
local installation
2) Contents of my ~/.Renviron:
R_LIBS=/home/myuser/rlibs
3) Contents of ~/.Rprofile:
r - getOption(repos) # hard code the US repo for CRAN
r[CRAN] - http://cran.us.r-project.org;
options(repos = r)
rm(r)
4) Http environment variable proxy is set (like export
http_proxy=proxy..com. I can see it if I do 'Sys.getenv(http_proxy)'
from inside the R prompt)
NOTE: I managed to install libraries 'by hand' but for module that have
dependencies this doesn't work:
cd /home/$USER/rlibs/; wget
http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/timeDate_3011.99.tar.gz;
/mylocal/R-3.1.2/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l /localrdir timeDate_3011.99.tar.gz
I apologize if this is not the correct list (went through all of them, WIKI and
other groups looking for an answer to this issue without much luck).
Thanks,
--Jose
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