Re: [R] Deprecating download method='wininet' in R on Windows causes trouble with corporate proxy

2022-09-29 Thread Selke, Gisbert W.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 01:27 Henrik Bengtsson wrote > Is R centrally installed? It usually (but not always...) is installed through a central install process, but installations will not be kept synchronized. (I.e., we end up having independent installations, many different versions, many

Re: [R] Deprecating download method='wininet' in R on Windows causes trouble with corporate proxy

2022-09-29 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Is R centrally installed? If so, environment variables 'HTTP_PROXY', 'HTTPS_PROXY', and 'HTTPS_PROXY_USER' could be set for all users by setting them in the R_HOME/etc/Renviron.site file. R_HOME is the folder where R is installed. You can find this file from within R by calling: >

[R] Deprecating download method='wininet' in R on Windows causes trouble with corporate proxy

2022-09-29 Thread Selke, Gisbert W.
Method="wininet" is deprecated and scheduled to go away, the standard method is now libcurl. This causes trouble for all R users in our shop, because we are sitting behind a corporate proxy, which uses Kerberos authentication. (We're all on Windows.) Using wininet, this used to work without