Oddity with internet access and R 11.0 with Sophos firewall and Windoze XP - solved (and version numbers corrected!)

David (a mere doctor).
>
> OK, back into my tardis and thanks for the correction!!
>
> Chris
>
> Prof Brian Ripley sent the following  at 24/04/2010 11:57:
>
>> Could you please explain how you manage to travel to the future to  
>> get
>> access to R 11.0[.0] and 10.1.0.  I'm sure the other R developers  
>> would
>> also love to know what new features we are going to implement in the
>> next several decades.
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Just in case anyone else hits this.  I just installed R 11.0  
>>> alongside R
>>> 10.1.0 (off my D: drive in D:\R\... but I think that's irrelevent)  
>>> and
>>> all went well, I selected my nearest CRAN mirror (Bristol is the  
>>> one I
>>> like) and getting the selection list seemed to take ages though it  
>>> did
>>> come eventually.  However, I then got an error message saying that R
>>> couldn't make contact on port 80.  I rechecked with R 10.1.0:  
>>> fine.  I
>>> reinstalled R 11.0.0 and selected "internet2" instead of  
>>> "standard" for
>>> internet, no change.
>>>
>>> I thought "Can't be the firewall as it wouldn't get the list of  
>>> mirrors"
>>> but I went into Sophos firewall and manually added R 11.0.0 and
>>> everything is now fine.
>>>
>>> Very odd and I'd be interested to hear if some clever person can  
>>> explain
>>> why R 11.0.0 was making (very slow) access to the internet to get  
>>> the
>>> list of mirrors but then failing (I have the 10.1.0 location in the
>>> windows path but not, yet, the 11.0.0 one, could it be that?)
>>>
>>> However, ultimately this seems to me to be a problem with Sophos's
>>> firewall not R and I'm just reporting it here in case anyone else  
>>> sees
>>> the same and finds this helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks to the R team, yet again, for an amazing product!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
>>> Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
>>> Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
>>> Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
>>> Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
>>> *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear.  
>>> Otherwise*
>>> *my views are my own and not representative of those  
>>> institutions    *
>>> If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a  
>>> reply,
>>> send again but cc to:       chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot  
>>> uk
>>> and to:                     c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk
>>>
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>>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
> Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
> Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
>  Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
> Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
> *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise*
> *my views are my own and not representative of those institutions    *
> If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a reply,
> send again but cc to:       chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot uk
> and to:                     c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
  Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
*If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise*
*my views are my own and not representative of those institutions    *
If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a reply,
send again but cc to:       chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot uk
and to:                     c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk

Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of chrishold at psyctc.org
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 12:34 PM
> To: David Winsemius; r-help at r-project.org
> Cc: r-core at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] formatted output facilities ... was ..Oddity with
> internet access and R 11.0 - solved
> 
> David Winsemius sent the following  at 24/04/2010 18:24:
> >> Now that I'm here, courtesy of my time slip, what I'd really love to
> see
> >> in R 10.0.0, or even 2.12.0, is the choice to have output either in
> the
> >> current plain text or to some simple formatting primitives that
> would
> >> have default tabs & tables for matrices etc. and allow embedded
> >> graphics.  I'd love to be able to opt to save that as HTML, XML,
> TeX,
> >> RTF, ODF wihthout the complexities of Sweave, ODFWeave, R2HTML etc.
> >>
> >> I know the complexities of Sweave etc. are child's play to
> numerically
> >> and computer gifted people such as yourself Professor, and the R
> core
> >> team, but for those of us who proselytise for R to mere
> psychologists,
> >> doctors, psychotherapists etc., that complexity is hard and the
> hassles
> >> of reformatting text to nice tables etc. discourages people from
> coming
> >> across from SPSS I know.
> >
> > --
> >> require(xtable)
> > Loading required package: xtable
> >> ?xtable
> >
> > --
> > David (a mere doctor).
> 
> Not "mere" to me David.
> 
> Yes, I know xtable and use it a bit, well, quite a lot when I was
> writing R things for cgi use on the web.  I'm sure it's evolved (quick
> check suggests it has and great to see that aov, lm etc. are all
> covered).  However, it really does underline my point: you have to know
> it exists, you have to load it, then what you get on screen is either
> TeX or HTML formatted things and it doesn't embed graphics.  As I
> generally (boo hiss) have to get things to end up in Word documents it
> means I have to save to HTML and import from there.
> 
> I did also work a bit with ODFweave and really liked it but kept
> hitting
> problems and found the extra layer between me and debugging my very bad
> R coding meant that I didn't really make the leap from using ESS & R
> and
> raw output.  Not helped by work restrictions ensuring I couldn't really
> make the leap from Word to Open Office but the main problems were more
> of a feeling of more layers between me and R.  I've got used to ESS and
> love it but that leaves me stuck with these output reformatting
> challenges.
> 
> Xtable is wonderful and surely provides a lot of the functions that I'd
> love to see embedded into the R core.  If we get into my R tardis, and
> go to R 10.0.0, or could it only be R 2.13.0 say, those things would
> support an option to stream R output into lightly formatted form AND
> render and save that.  I'm looking for table handling such as xtable
> provides, tabs and embedding of graphics though if that last didn't
> come
> for years, I'd still be happy to have the text formatting and I'd love
> to be able to chose saving to at least a couple of ODF, RTF, HTML, Tex.
> 
> As well as the code in xtable, I'm sure other resources are in
> ODFweave,
> Sweave that would help this.  I know it's a significant programming
> challenge to do that, particularly in a program that so brilliantly
> embraces so many different platforms.
> 
> One of my guesses is that just allowing addition of tabs into the
> routine R output and encouraging us all to start using them, would be a
> huge step forward.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> P.S. I'm cc'g to r-core as this is really a plea to the core team.
> Sorry if that's a breach of R etiquette.
> 
> --
> Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc
> Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
> Trust Research Governance Lead and Clinical Director, Psychological
>   Therapies Directorate in Local Services, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust;
> Professor, Psychotherapy, Nottingham University
> *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise*
> *my views are my own and not representative of those institutions    *
> If you have difficulty Emailing me on this address or getting a reply,
> send again but cc to:       chris dot evans at nottshc dot nhs dot uk
> and to:                     c dot evans at nottingham dot ac dot uk
> 
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