[R] R-2.6.0 - packages installation through a proxy - not working

[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/17/07, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> Hmm, I haven't had to do that in a while. What happens if you do
>
>         > update.packages(method="wget")
>
> ie use an explicit setting of method?

This exact way of manually specifying the method within the command
(as opposed to setting it in Rprofile.site) is working. I used it
successfully with install. and update.packages().

Liviu