With the previous versions of R (my latest is 3.2.1) I have had no problem getting through the proxy for the firewall at work. I installed the latest version (3.2.2) and now cannot get through the firewall. There is the session:
R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) -- "Fire Safety" Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > Sys.setenv(http_proxy = "http://10.254.16.12:3128/";, http_proxy_user = "ask") > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv' In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) : cannot open: HTTP status was '407 Proxy Authentication Required' Warning: unable to access index for repository https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran/src/contrib Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type) : no packages were specified > sessionInfo() R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_3.2.2 > I was running with "--vanilla" on the RGUI. I have seen that there were some other people having issues with 3.2.2 and proxies. Is there a fix out there, or are there some other options I need to setup for 3.2.2 to access through a proxy? Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
