[UniMacTech] R on a Mac

[Charlie Nancarrow]

Tony,

You can use

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy.com:port")

at the start of your R session, or use

http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy.com:port"

in your ~/.Renviron file (create this file if it does not exist).


Cheers,

Charlie.


On 24/06/09 3:09 PM, "Tony Williams" <tonyw at honestpuck.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an academic that wants to use R and I can't find a way to get it to use
> our proxy server to download the addon packages. It doesn't pick up the
> environment variable http_proxy if I set it in /etc/profile or ~/.profile so I
> assume I have to set it somewhere else.
> 
> Anyone have a Mac R user who has solved this problem?
> 
> // Tony
> 
> 

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