Note that Windows XP has 4 types of environment variables and I suspect that the problem stems from not taking that into account:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_wsh_kmmj.mspx?mfr=true On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use R at work and at home on the same computer. At work, I > have a proxy, and at home, I do not. I have, for work, a User environment > variable "http_proxy" which I set in the OS (Windows XP Pro). When I am at > work, and I try to retrieve data from the web with 'read.csv', things work > just fine. I assume it knows how to use the proxy. > > The trouble is when I am at home and have no proxy, R still tries to use my > work proxy. I have tried the following: > > Sys.setenv("http_proxy"="") > Sys.setenv("no_proxy"=TRUE) > Sys.setenv("no_proxy"=1) > > none of which seems to work. Whenever I try to use read.csv, it tells me > that it cannot find my work proxy, which I am trying to tell R to ignore. > > I can solve this problem by removing the http_proxy environment variable > binding in the OS when at home, but that is a pain, because then I have to > reset it when I go back into work. > > Is there a way to tell R within a session to ignore the proxy? If so, what > am I doing wrong? > > thanks, > matt > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
