Proxy Under Mac OS X

Thu, May 31, 2007 9:33 PM #

Dear R programmers,

I can only config. proxy under Mac OS X terminal and launch R under Terminal by

Terminal:

export http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port"

Under R:

I don't know how to config this in R for Mac OS X Aqua GUI.
I checked the relevant document but no specific steps for Mac OS X.

Regards,
Ch Chan

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be
sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
Nikola Tesla
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Brian Ripley

Fri, Jun 1, 2007 12:36 AM #

The most 'relevant document' is ?download.file, and there is AFAIK 
nothing specific to MacOS X about the code (and I did write it).

You can use

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port")

at the start of your R session, or use

http_proxy="http://un:pw at proxy.com:port"

in your ~/.Renviron file (see 'An Introduction to R' and ?Startup).

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Chung-hong Chan wrote:

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