On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:56:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all; > > I?m working with the latest version of R under Win2000. My internet connection > (using a proxy) requires my username and password. In this situation I?m > not able to update the packages from CRAN (unless I download and install > them from a local drive). I tried looking at information on the list servers > but I couldn?t figure out how to change 'environment variables' or something > like that. I also tried renaming the files internet2.dll to internet.dll > and so on. Any 'new' idea how to solve this situation.
See the 'R on Windows' FAQ, Section 2.17. Personally, I use http_proxy="....." in the file ~/.Renviron -- i.e. a file called .Renviron in the directory pointed to by the $HOME env. variable. Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html