[Rd] url, readLines, source behind a proxy

[Joshua Ulrich]

Hi Renaud,

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Renaud Gaujoux
<renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi Henrik,
>
<snip>
>
> Could anybody behind a proxy check if the issue can be reproduced?
> My proxy is in fact provided by cntml, which acts as a local proxy that
> takes care of tricky authentication protocols with the actual university
> proxy, not natively supported by my system (Ubuntu). Anybody in this case?
>
I can replicate this on a WinXP system, where I normally have to use
the --internet2 flag to get internet access through a proxy.

?download.file has a section on "Setting Proxies", which describes how
to use environment variables to set proxy information.  Setting
http_proxy='http://my.proxy.com/' was enough for me to get R CMD
check to run successfully with the --as-cran flag.

> Thanks.
> Renaud
>

Best,
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> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Renaud Gaujoux
>> <renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > when I run R CMD check with flag --as-cran, the process hangs at stage:
>> >
>> > * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ...
>>
>> Doesn't it time-out eventually?  I'm not behind a proxy but when I've
>> been running 'R CMD check' whenon very poor 3G connection, it had
>> eventually timed out.
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
>> >
>> > I am pretty sure it is a proxy issue.
>> > I looked at the check code in the tools package and it seems that the issue
>> > is in the local function `.repository_db()` (defined in
>> > `tools:::.check_package_CRAN_incoming()`), which eventually calls `url()`
>> > with argument open="rb", that hangs probably because it does not use the
>> > proxy settings.
>> > I had a similar issue with `source()`, which apparently uses internal
>> > network functions (not as download.file), but is supposed to work behind a
>> > proxy (correct?).
>> > Does anybody else have this problem?
>> >
>> > I was wondering if there is a way around, as I would like to be able to use
>> > --as-cran for my checks.
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>> > Renaud
>> >
>> > --
>> > Renaud Gaujoux
>> > Computational Biology - University of Cape Town
>> > South Africa
>> >
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