[R] Help installing packages with dependencies for R, behind corporate firewall

2015-01-14 Thread jose.nunez-zuleta
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/

Re: [R] Help installing packages with dependencies for R, behind

2015-01-15 Thread jose.nunez-zuleta
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