[BioC] Proxy setting for R/Bioconductor

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Vincent Carey
<stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
> This is not a problem with Bioconductor.  In R, see ?download.file and work
> with R-help mailing list if the
> available documentation is inadequate.
>

Also see ?internet2.
Dan


> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Karthik <karthikkn at aims.amrita.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working behind an institutional proxy and can not get past it. How
>> should I
>> enable proxy in R. I tried:
>>
>>  "path_to_R\bin\i386\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://gannet/http_proxy_user=ask
>>
>> and gave user name and password, but when I tried to run:
>>
>> source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
>>
>> it gave :
>>
>> Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>>  cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>>  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
>>
>> how to go about this issue??
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Karthu
>>
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