[BioC] internet2.dll equivalent for Mac

[Seth Falcon]

Byron Ellis <ellis at stat.harvard.edu> writes:

> 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.

It does sound like a http proxy issue.  The there are some ways of
working with that and they are described in the R help page for the
download.file function.

+ seth