[R] Installation require proxy settings (2)

[Greg Snow]

The http_proxy environmental variable should look something like: http://your.proxy.com:8080  (at least that is what mine looks like and it works), my http_proxy_user is just the word "ask" which makes it prompt me for my username and password (first time I connect each session).

You can double check that R is getting the correct values by using: Sys.getenv("http_proxy") and seeing that that matches what it should.

I have not received your particular error, so am not sure exactly what is causing it.  Try the above, it may help.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Van Wyk, Jaap
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:49 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Installation require proxy settings (2)
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> 
> Hi
> Thanks again to Greg, and Prof Ripley.
> Greg, I was trying to send you an email, but has been unsuccessful.
> Speaking to someone from our IT deparment, I am trying to follow your
> advice to implement the settings to my computer (using Windows), by
> using Control Panel.
> I have selected System in Control Panel and chose System, Advanced tab,
> Environmental Variables, and created the user variables:
> http_proxy, with value 152.106.241.34:3128
> http_proxy_user, with value user:pass (replacing these with my own
> username and password to connect to the internet via Internet Explorer.
> I have deleted R, rebooted the computer, and installed R again (NOT
> choosing Internet2).
> Then after opening Rgui.exe, I go to the Packages menu in the R
> console, and select  "Set CRAN mirror". I choose one, but the R comes
> back with the following:
> R> chooseCRANmirror()
> Error in m[, 1L] : incorrect number of dimensions
> 
> Could you possibly think of a fix for this problem? (Maybe I should try
> setting System variables?)
> 
> Thanks
> Jacob
> 
> 
> Jacob L van Wyk
> Department of Statistics
> University of Johannesburg (APK)
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