On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Antonio Olinto wrote: > Hi all, > > I used to connect internet via a proxy. Before update packages I wrote in R > > Sys.putenv("http_proxy"="http://proxy3.redegov.sp.gov.br:80/") > > Nevertheless the way the connection is done has changed. For example, in the > browser the proxy is not indicated and I have to give an username and a > password to have access to internet.
This is nothing to do with a browser: see below. > I read the FAQ and the help for download.file but I was not able to do > updates. > > I tried > Sys.putenv("http_proxy_user"="ask") > Sys.putenv("http_proxy_user"="http://****:****") It does say Setting Proxies: This applies to the internal code only. ... These environment variables must be set before the download code is first used: they cannot be altered later by calling 'Sys.setenv'. You can debug the download.file() session via option() 'internet.info', which should show you what is happening. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.