Could somebody please assist with the problem I have now. At our university certain changes have been made to users regarding accessing the internet. I have re-installed the (current) version of R, using custom settings (for Windows XP), choosing amongst other things "Internet2" somewhere. Now, when I wish to install new packages, I first have to select a CRAN mirror. R gives me a list to choose a mirror. But after choosing the mirror, R comes back with the following:
R> chooseCRANmirror() Warning message: In open.connection(con, "r") : cannot open: HTTP status was '407 Proxy Authentication Required' I need to tell R that I need a proxy server, and give my proxy settings (how I log onto the server to connect to the Internet. My question is: Where/how do I set this? Any advice is much appreciated. Thank you. Jacob L van Wyk Department of Statistics University of Johannesburg (APK) PO Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006 Office ph: 011 559 3080 Fax: 011 559 2499 ________________________________ This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://www.uj.ac.za/UJ_email_legal_disclaimer.htm [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.