[R] Http_proxy settings with autoproxy.php

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Lusseau, David wrote:

> Just installed R on a new machine which is on a server. I am trying to

Under Windows, I infer.

> download packages but seem to have trouble with our proxy settings. I
> have read the 2.19 section in R for Windows and tried what was suggested
> (setting http_proxy) but that did not help (still cannot connect). I
> think my problem is that we do not have a fixed port but use instead
> autoproxy. Has anyone encountered this problem and if so how can it be
> fixed?

Have you tried --internet2?  In most cases if Internet Explorer works with 
your proxy, so will Rgui --internet2.

Otherwise you need to ask the people who inflicted the proxy on you how to 
make use of it.  ('autoproxy' is not a well-defined term, BTW, as it has 
several meanings.)

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