Hi Renaud, On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Renaud Gaujoux <ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote: > Hi Henrik, > <snip> > > Could anybody behind a proxy check if the issue can be reproduced? > My proxy is in fact provided by cntml, which acts as a local proxy that > takes care of tricky authentication protocols with the actual university > proxy, not natively supported by my system (Ubuntu). Anybody in this case? > I can replicate this on a WinXP system, where I normally have to use the --internet2 flag to get internet access through a proxy.
?download.file has a section on "Setting Proxies", which describes how to use environment variables to set proxy information. Setting http_proxy='http://my.proxy.com/' was enough for me to get R CMD check to run successfully with the --as-cran flag. > Thanks. > Renaud > Best, -- Joshua Ulrich | FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com R/Finance 2012: Applied Finance with R www.RinFinance.com > On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Renaud Gaujoux >> <ren...@mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > when I run R CMD check with flag --as-cran, the process hangs at stage: >> > >> > * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... >> >> Doesn't it time-out eventually? I'm not behind a proxy but when I've >> been running 'R CMD check' whenon very poor 3G connection, it had >> eventually timed out. >> >> /Henrik >> >> > >> > I am pretty sure it is a proxy issue. >> > I looked at the check code in the tools package and it seems that the issue >> > is in the local function `.repository_db()` (defined in >> > `tools:::.check_package_CRAN_incoming()`), which eventually calls `url()` >> > with argument open="rb", that hangs probably because it does not use the >> > proxy settings. >> > I had a similar issue with `source()`, which apparently uses internal >> > network functions (not as download.file), but is supposed to work behind a >> > proxy (correct?). >> > Does anybody else have this problem? >> > >> > I was wondering if there is a way around, as I would like to be able to use >> > --as-cran for my checks. >> > Thank you. >> > >> > Renaud >> > >> > -- >> > Renaud Gaujoux >> > Computational Biology - University of Cape Town >> > South Africa >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
