Message-ID: <48D910B2-865A-438A-8718-8FE4CCC6A0E6@stat.berkeley.edu>
Date: 2006-04-05T20:43:14Z
From: Kasper Daniel Hansen
Subject: Setting environment variables, especially http_proxy and ftp_proxy
In-Reply-To: <B59418D9-C359-4ABE-9067-C2316B41D773@r-project.org>
And I guess you can put it in .Renviron which contains environment
variables being set when you run R. I am not sure however that the
Rgui reads that file? I know there are ways to run R without the file
being read - I think R CMD BATCH is one of them.
/Kasper
On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Doug,
>
> On Apr 5, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Douglas Bates wrote:
>
>> I have installed the universal binary for R-2.2.1 on an Intel Mac
>> that is behind a firewall. How do I ensure that the http_proxy
>> environment variable is set when I start R? I understand that I
>> must do this before the first time I use the internal network code.
>>
>> I tend to work with a private library (Martin: I really do mean
>> "library", not "package" :-) as the first element in the search
>> path for packages so it would be helpful if I could learn how to
>> set R_LIBS as well.
>>
>
> There are several ways to set environment variables for specific
> applications, but this is probably the most widely used one:
> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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