[R-SIG-Mac] [Fwd: R behind a proxy server]

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Read ?download.file - and browse the archives. This question has been  
asked 100s of times (perhaps not on this list but certainly on other R- 
related lists).

Kasper

On May 1, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Shelah Morita wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does no one have a solution for me? Or does this not make sense?
>
> Hopefully,
>
> Shelah
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[R-SIG-Mac] R behind a proxy server
> Date: 	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:21:14 +0200
> From: 	Shelah Morita <simorita at ncsu.edu>
> Reply-To: 	simorita at ncsu.edu
> Organization: 	NSF International Research Fellow
> To: 	r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to update my packages and I cannot seem to connect to CRAN.  I
> get the following error:
>
>> Error in file(con, "r") : unable to open connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In file(con, "r") : unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on  
>> port 80.
> I think it's because I am behind a proxy server here at the  
> university.
>
> Can you please tell me how to fix this?  I am using the gui version  
> and
> can't seem to find a menu with an option to set a proxy server.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shelah
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