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On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Karthik <karthikkn@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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