Hi,
I am trying to use R at work and at home on the same computer. At work, I have
a proxy, and at home, I do not. I have, for work, a User environment variable
http_proxy which I set in the OS (Windows XP Pro). When I am at work, and I
try to retrieve data from the web with 'read.csv',
Hi Gabor,
Thanks for the reply and link.
I took a look at the link -- one thing I don't understand is why if I delete
the 'http_proxy' variable via the cmd shell (or equivalent OS dialog box), why
I can get R to ignore the proxy, but using Sys.setenv(http_proxy=) won't do
that for me (at
OK, I think I get that... do you know which namespace the Sys.setenv() function
affects? Do you know if there are functions in R that can alter the
user/system/process environment variables?
Thanks,
Matt
-Original Message-
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue
Thanks... I'll check the documentation to see which file on Windows I
need to alter to issue one of those commands.
matt
-Original Message-
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:39 AM
To: Gabor Grothendieck
Cc: Pettis, Matthew (Thomson);
Thanks... I'll give it a whirl...
matt
-Original Message-
From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:22 AM
To: Pettis, Matthew (Thomson)
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] http proxies: setting and unsetting
There is also a free
