[BioC] internet2.dll equivalent for Mac

[Byron Ellis]

It sounds like you have firewall issues. My guess is that your site  
uses some sort of proxy server rather than allowing direct  
connections. Your IT department probably correctly configures IE on  
the Win32 boxen so the internet2 flag works.

On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Jonathan Arthur wrote:

> Hello Stefano and others,
>
> I can download and install R with no difficulties. When I try to get
> Bioconductor by typing:
>
> source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
>
> I get the error:
>
> Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> unable to connect to 'www.bioconductor.org' on port 80.
>
> On windows, I solved this by:
>
> 1. Right click on the R icon on the desktop
> 2. Select properties
> 3. Change the target from "C:\Program Files\R\rw2001\bin\Rgui.exe" (or
> whatever your Rgui path is) to "C:\Program Files\R\rw2001\bin 
> \Rgui.exe"
> --internet2 (i.e. add the flag --internet2 after the quoted path name)
> 4. Select OK
>
> As this involves the use of the internet2.dll, I assume this will not
> work on Mac OSX. My question is, what is the equivalent procedure on a
> Mac to solve this connection problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> stefano iacus wrote:
>
>> Jonathan,
>> could you please be more specific?
>> R on OS X has such functionalities.
>> stefano
>> p.s. eventually R-sig-Mac for such OS X  specific issues
>>
>> Il giorno 30/mar/06, alle ore 06:28, Jonathan Arthur ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am trying to install Bioconductor on a Mac and having difficulty
>>> getting the internet download functions to work. On Windows, I  
>>> solved
>>> this by using the internet2.dll
>>>
>>> I have not been able to find, in the R or Bioconductor  
>>> documentation,
>>> details on the equivalent process required on a Mac to get the   
>>> internet
>>> download functions to work. Could anybody help me out with the   
>>> required
>>> commands?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Dr Jonathan Arthur
>>> Sesqui Lecturer in Bioinformatics
>>> Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and SUBIT
>>> Medical Foundation Building, K25
>>> University of Sydney
>>> Ph: +61 2 9036 3132
>>> Email: jarthur at med.usyd.edu.au
>>>
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>>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr Jonathan Arthur
> Sesqui Lecturer in Bioinformatics
> Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and SUBIT
> Medical Foundation Building, K25
> University of Sydney
> Ph: +61 2 9036 3132
> Email: jarthur at med.usyd.edu.au
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