[R] accessing CRAN through a proxy on 3.2.2

[jim holtman]

Thanks.  I did find out that for my work environment if I use

setInternet(FALSE)

then everything seems to work again.  They changed the default to TRUE in
3.2.2 and that must have been causing the problem.


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Michael Weylandt <
michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14) -- "Fire Safety"
> > Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> >   Natural language support but running in an English locale
> > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> > Type 'q()' to quit R.
> >> 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
>

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