Hi Jose

I faced the same problem at my workplace too - the solution (at least for
us) was to insert the following function into the Rprofile.ste file in the
etc folder in the R install folder - or, if the  .First function already
exists, you could just insert the line beginning Sys.setenv(….) into that
function.  The bit in the speech marks needs to be a suitable web proxy
address and port, and the 'http_proxy_user=ask' bit is telling R to ask for
a username and password.

.First <- function() {
Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://webproxy:8080 http_proxy_user=ask")
}

Hope this works for you!

Cheers,
Carina


On 8 November 2013 17:10, Batista, Jose <jose.batista@nb.com> wrote:

> R-Help Mailing List,
>
> I'm currently working with a user who is actively trying to download &
> install libraries for 'R' on her office PC. While using
> install.packages("packageName", dependencies = TRUE) works without a
> problem on our home PCs, we use a proxy at the firm and therefore it
> doesn't let the application go directly out of the network on port 80.  Is
> there a way to manually set proxy information within the application so
> that it can, indeed, reach the internet when we're trying to download and
> install libraries (and necessary dependencies) from within the application?
>  I've gone through some of the options but there's nothing there for it.
>
> Regards,
> José Emmanuel Batista
>
>
>
>
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