[BioC] How to install BioConductor packages with a computer behind a proxy

[Martin Morgan]

On 12/17/2010 10:08 PM, Barco You wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Because my computer is behind a http proxy, every time I got nothing when
> running source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R"); biocLite(), and I
> tried to set the proxy with Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://.....:8080") but
> it did't work either.
> 
> Could you please tell me how to set http proxy for R? Thanks!

Hi

Probably it would help to show

  sessionInfo()

Your issues might be addressed by an R FAQ

  http://cran.r-project.org/faqs.html

e.g., for Windows

  http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html

FAQ 2.19.

Martin

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