[R] Question about proxy setting of R

[qwertyui_period at yahoo.co.jp]

Dear, Carina

Thanks for your adivice.

It worked finally as below:

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://proxyserver:port")
options(repos="http://cloud.r-project.org/")
options(download.file.method="internal")

J J


----- Original Message -----
>From: Carina Salt <carina.salt at googlemail.com>
>To: jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> 
>Cc: qwertyui_period at yahoo.co.jp; "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
>Date: 2016/12/5, Mon 22:18
>Subject: Re: [R] Question about proxy setting of R
>  
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>As far as I can see, the 'internal' method doesn't work for https mirrors (on my system, anyway).  However, the http mirrors still exist (try "http://cloud.r-project.org/" for example) so why not just use one of those?
>
>
>Cheers,
>Carina
>
>
>On 5 December 2016 at 12:27, jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>You will probably have to check with your network folks to see what is
>>possible on your system.
>>
>>
>>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 Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:33 AM, <qwertyui_period at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Jim,
>>>
>>> Thanks to your advice, "Proxy Authentification" window showed up, however,
>>> I couldn't access to the internet. Error messages are as below.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------
>>> > update.packages(ask='graphics' ,checkBuilt=TRUE)
>>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>>> Warning: failed to download mirrors file (scheme not supported in URL
>>> 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv'); using local file
>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/doc/ CRAN_mirrors.csv'
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> https://cran.ism.ac.jp/src/contrib:
>>>   scheme not supported in URL 'https://cran.ism.ac.jp/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
>>>
>>> Proxy authentication failed:
>>>         please re-enter the credentials or hit Cancel
>>> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------
>>>
>>> I assume the proxy server is only available for "http", not "https".
>>> What should I do ?
>>>
>>> J J
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com>
>>> *To:* qwertyui_period at yahoo.co.jp
>>> *Date:* 2016/12/2, Fri 09:13
>>> *Subject:* Re: [R] Question about proxy setting of R
>>>
>>> Try this option:
>>>
>>>  options(download.file.method = "internal")
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:37 PM, <qwertyui_period at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I use R 3.0.2 on Win 7 through proxy server using ".Rprofile" in home
>>> directory that includes "Sys.setenv(http_proxy=proxy_ server:port)".
>>> There has been no problem to access the internet for some years.
>>> In this situation, I installed R 3.3.1 and then entered "update.packages
>>> ()", however, "Proxy Authentification" window didn't show up and
>>> failed to access the internet. Error messages are as below.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------
>>> > update.packages(ask='graphics' ,checkBuilt=TRUE)
>>> --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>>> Warning: failed to download mirrors file (cannot open URL
>>> 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv'); using local file
>>> 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/doc/ CRAN_mirrors.csv'
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> https://cran.ism.ac.jp/src/contrib:
>>>   cannot open URL 'https://cran.ism.ac.jp/src/contrib/PACKAGES'
>>> Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib:
>>>   cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES
>>> '
>>> Warning message:
>>> In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
>>>   cannot open URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/CRAN_mirrors.csv': HTTP
>>> status was '407 Proxy Authentication Required'
>>>
>>> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------
>>>
>>> Strange to say, R 3.0.2 is able to access to the internet, and R 3.3.1
>>> shows collect proxy setting in ".Rprofile"  by "Sys.getenv("http_proxy")"
>>> From internet information, I added "http_proxy_user=ask" to ".Rprofile", or
>>> " --internet2" to the desktop icon of R 3.3.1, ending up in the same
>>> result.
>>>
>>> Please show me the way of proxy setting of R 3.3.1.
>>>
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