Very slow startup on Win32
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:08:50PM -0400, Lowden, James K wrote:
The machine is behind a firewall with an http proxy, and I haven't found out how (if possible) to tell R about it. Does that matter at startup time? Trying to add a package yields:
local({a <- CRAN.packages()
+ install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a)}) trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES' unable to connect to 'cran.r-project.org' on port 80. Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"), : cannot open URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/1.7/PACKAGES' even though that URL works fine in IE. I understand I should be able to use Rcmd to install packages, but its perl scripts appear to be missing:
Ther error fairly obvious: cannot open URL, and you even state that your proxied.
What to do?
Search the mailing list archives, this gets discussed at least once a month. There are two options, one invoing the internet2.dll, the other involving wget. You get to pick one. Hth, Dirk
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