That works great. Thanks, Rich.

From: Richard M. Heiberger [mailto:rmh@temple.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 1:13 PM
To: Joseph Boyer
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] how to get old packages to work on R 2.12.1

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<mailto: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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