[R] accessing CRAN through a proxy on 3.2.2

[Michael Weylandt]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the previous versions of R (my latest is 3.2.1) I have had no problem
> getting through the proxy for the firewall at work.  I installed the latest
> version (3.2.2) and now cannot get through the firewall.  There is the
> session:
>
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>> Sys.setenv(http_proxy = "http://10.254.16.12:3128/", http_proxy_user =
> "ask")
>> utils:::menuInstallPkgs()
> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
> Error in download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>   cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '407 Proxy Authentication Required'
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran/src/contrib
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib
> Error in install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type =
> type) :
>   no packages were specified
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.2.2
>>
>
> I was running with "--vanilla" on the RGUI.  I have seen that there were
> some other people having issues with 3.2.2 and proxies.  Is there a fix out
> there, or are there some other options I need to setup for 3.2.2 to access
> through a proxy?

Try setInternet2() (or the equivalent command line flag).

Michael