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[Bioc-devel] A question about using proxy when developing R package

2 messages · slzhao, Martin Morgan

slzhao
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Hello,

         I am developing a R package. As I have to use a proxy to
access the internet, so I used the function "setInternet2()" in R to
download CRAN packages. But now I am writing a sweave based help file
in Lyx software. In this help file, the "download.file" function was
used in a example code. So I just used "setInternet2()" in this help
file. Of course it is not good as the end user need not a proxy. Does
anyone know how to resolve this problem?
         Thanks for the reply.
Martin Morgan
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On 05/22/2012 06:14 AM, slzhao wrote:
I think you want to use a different approach to configuring your own
computer to use the proxy. Arrange to start R with the --internet2
option, or (perhaps only R-devel?) set the environment variable
R_WIN_INTERNET2 on your system. See the R windows FAQ

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html

Martin