Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-13 Thread Thomas Steiner
Thank you Philipp for your suggestions. In Rprofile.site every line is commented out and I could not find any .Rprofile. I even tried starting R with additional cmdline arguments --no-environ and --no-init-file. Still > update.packages(ask='graphics') --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-12 Thread Philipp Kauer
Hi Thomas maybe try the following: 1) start R with option "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin\Rgui.exe" -- internet2 2) disable anything in your Rprofile.site and .Rprofile to have a clean start of R I recently upgraded from an earlier version of R to v 2.6.2, and was using all my old libs, and

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-12 Thread Thomas Steiner
Thanks Liviu, I am trying out what is proposed in the mentioned thread. I start R by "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.6.2\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy="http://proxy.haifis.org:8080"; Then I do the following (selecting "Austria" as mirror) > install.packages("package", method="wget") --- Please select a CRAN

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 3/10/08, Thomas Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot access internet through R. > My IT-guys told me that I should set the proxy and the port and then > everything will be fine. Where can I set them? Recently, I also had problems installing packages when under a transparent proxy. Wh

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Steiner
> OK, that's perfect. Then the proxy configuration is still wrong. MAybe > you want to try the other way given in the R for Windows FAQs and > re-check your proxy settings. I did try the other ways and the above trial shows some progress: > utils:::menuInstallPkgs() --- Please select a CRAN mirror

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thomas Steiner wrote: >> Which mirror do you use? > > As I am living in Vienna, I use "Austria". Which should I try? > Thomas OK, that's perfect. Then the proxy configuration is still wrong. MAybe you want to try the other way given in the R for Windows FAQs and re-check your proxy settings.

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Steiner
> Which mirror do you use? As I am living in Vienna, I use "Austria". Which should I try? Thomas __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.ht

Re: [R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-10 Thread Uwe Ligges
Which mirror do you use? Uwe Ligges Thomas Steiner wrote: > I cannot access internet through R. > My IT-guys told me that I should set the proxy and the port and then > everything will be fine. Where can I set them? > I use R 2.6.2 under Windows 2000 and these settings are those of the > Internet

[R] internet proxy settings (win)

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Steiner
I cannot access internet through R. My IT-guys told me that I should set the proxy and the port and then everything will be fine. Where can I set them? I use R 2.6.2 under Windows 2000 and these settings are those of the Internet Explorer (no password). I read http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/win