[R] RGoogleDocs/RCurl through proxy

[Remko Duursma]

Duncan,

I tested the new RCurl with the proxy option, and it works great (I
tested a curlPerform example, which does not work otherwise).

Problem with RGoogleDocs though:

> auth = getGoogleAuth("remkoduursma at gmail.com", GPASS)

Error in strsplit(type, "/")[[1]] : subscript out of bounds


If I get the Google Docs authorization by turning the proxy off;

options( RCurlOptions = list(verbose = TRUE,
                            proxy = ""))

And then turn it back on, I can connect just fine.


thanks,
Remko





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Remko Duursma
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Centre for Plants and the Environment
University of Western Sydney
Hawkesbury Campus
Richmond NSW 2753

Dept of Biological Science
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Australia

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Duncan Temple
Lang<duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Hi Remko
>
>  There is a new version (1.1-0) of the RCurl package
> (on which RGoogleDocs depends) (no binary for Windows at this point).
>
> This version allows one to specify default curl options that are used each
> time a new curl handle/object is created.
>
> You set these defaults in R's own options() list, e.g.
>
>  options( RCurlOptions = list(verbose = TRUE,
>                               proxy = "host:port",
>                               noproxy = "www.nytimes.com"))
>
>
> The proxy option is most likely what you need to set.
> You can specify the host, port, user and password in this string.
> Or you can specify the user:password string via the 'proxyuserpwd'
> option.  You can even specify the mechanism to use for authenticating
> the user via the 'proxyauth' option.
>
> libcurl (and hence RCurl) has several different options
> related to proxies
> http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html
>
>  D.
>
> Remko Duursma wrote:
>>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am trying to use RGoogleDocs, but I am connecting through a proxy
>> server.
>>
>> I know RCurl is used for the connection, which should be able to deal
>> with proxies and such.
>> How do I set this up for RCurl? And can I use those settings with
>> RGoogleDocs as well?
>>
>> I have the name of the proxy server and the port number.
>>
>> (Windows XP).
>>
>> thanks,
>> Remko
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> Remko Duursma
>> Post-Doctoral Fellow
>>
>> Centre for Plants and the Environment
>> University of Western Sydney
>> Hawkesbury Campus
>> Richmond NSW 2753
>>
>> Dept of Biological Science
>> Macquarie University
>> North Ryde NSW 2109
>> Australia
>>
>> Mobile: +61 (0)422 096908
>> www.remkoduursma.com
>>
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