Joe,

Most firewall issues can be resolved by entering


setInternet2(use = TRUE)


prior to the update.packges call.

Rich


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Joseph Boyer <joseph.g.boyer@gsk.com>wrote:

> Many thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> For me, the update.packages command will not work behind the firewall at my
> workplace.
>
> But the respondents have given me more than enough suggestions to work
> with.
>
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