[R] internet2 and proxies

[Strumila, John]

gday R gurus,

I've never attempted to use download.file before on my win2k machine but
this version 1.4 looks exciting.  However, I'm not getting something right.

I've passed my R shortcut --internet2 and I can tell it's using the wininet
calls because it's asking about authentication but how do I tell it my
username/password?

The help file only talks about user/pw for non wininet and I've searched
cran.  I thought wininet should prompt me via a dialog box.  I'm running
ie5.

thanks,
John Strumila


> {a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)}
trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  : 
        cannot open: HTTP status was `407 Proxy Authentication Required'
> 
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