[R] updating via CRAN and http

[Arne.Muller@aventis.com]

Sorry, I didn' mean it the nasty way. I wouldn't have been surprised if the
R-team had told me the authentification with the firewall is my problem (i.e.
a special case that cannot be dealt with by th R-team). 

Yess, and off course I should have had a much closer lookk into the docu.
Thanks again for the hint + please forgive!

	+regards,

	Arne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: 08 October 2003 17:20
> To: Muller, Arne PH/FR
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] updating via CRAN and http
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > thanks for the tips on updating packages for 1.8.0. The 
> updating is a real
> > problem for me, since I've to do it sort of manually using 
> my web-browser or
> > wget. I'm behind a firewall that requires http/ftp 
> authentification (username
> > and passwd) for every request it sends to a server outside 
> our intranet.
> > Therefore all the nice tools for automatic updating (cran, 
> cpan ...) don't
> > for me (I've tried).
> > 
> > I understand that the non-paranoid rest of the world can't 
> be bothered, but
> > is there any intenstion to include such authentification 
> into the update
> > procedures of R? I think for ftp it's kind of tricky, but 
> at least for http
> > the authentification seems to be straight forward.
> 
> It's available for http: see ?download.file, and you can even 
> configure 
> that to use wget.
> 
> Your comments are very much misplaced: we *have* bothered to 
> provide the 
> facilities for you.
> 
> -- 
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