Hi:

One alternative to sneaking around the proxy restrictions is to load
R onto a jump drive and run it off of that. I know of several instructors
who are using that approach with their students for similar reasons.
Unless you have a compelling reason to install every single package,
you should be able to fit R comfortably on a 4Gb memory stick.

Just wanted to provide a different possible solution to your problem :)

Dennis

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM, danda <gallia@tcd.ie> wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to run R on my computer (with win xp on it) at work bu the
> proxy restrictions of the university don't let me download the packages or
> to connect to a cran mirror, I usually get this message:
>
> > chooseCRANmirror()
> Warning message:
> In open.connection(con, "r") :
>  unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80.
>
> Do you know if there is a way to set proxy settings for using R normally?
> Thanks a lot
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