Re: [Rd] Cross-platform check for internet connection

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, hadley wickham wrote: > On 6/22/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, hadley wickham wrote: >> >> > What's the recommended way to check if an internet connection is >> > available across platforms? I was using is.null(nsl()) but this does >

Re: [Rd] Cross-platform check for internet connection

On 6/22/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, hadley wickham wrote: > > > What's the recommended way to check if an internet connection is > > available across platforms? I was using is.null(nsl()) but this does > > not work on windows. > > I don't know a way to d

Re: [Rd] Cross-platform check for internet connection

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, hadley wickham wrote: > What's the recommended way to check if an internet connection is > available across platforms? I was using is.null(nsl()) but this does > not work on windows. I don't know a way to do this on Windows without a possible very long hang. It's complicat

[Rd] Cross-platform check for internet connection

What's the recommended way to check if an internet connection is available across platforms? I was using is.null(nsl()) but this does not work on windows. Thanks, Hadley __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-dev