Proxy setting for R

Question

I am facing problem while conecting R with internet in my office  May be this due to LAN settings  I tried the almost all possible ways I come across in the web  see below  but still in vain     Method1  Invoking R using --internet2 Method2  Invoking R by setting   Rgui exe http proxy http  999 99 99 99 8080  http proxy user ask Method3  Setting Setinternet2 TRUE Method4   curl  lt - getCurlHandle   curlSetOpt  opts   list proxy    999 99 99 99 8080    curl   curl  Res  lt - getURL  http   www cricinfo com   curl   curl     In above all methods I can able to load packages directly from CRAN also able to download files using download file command  But using getURL RCurl   readHTMLTable XML   htmlTreeParse XML  commands I am unable to extract web data  I am getting   lt HEAD gt  n lt TITLE gt Access Denied lt  TITLE gt  n lt  HEAD gt   error   How to set LAN proxy settings for XML package in R

User · Answer

This post pertains to R proxy issues on *nix. You should know that R has many libraries/methods to fetch data over internet.

For 'curl', 'libcurl', 'wget' etc, just do the following:

Open a terminal. Type the following command:
```
sudo gedit /etc/R/Renviron.site
```
Enter the following lines:
```
http_proxy='http://username:[email protected]:port/'
https_proxy='https://username:[email protected]:port/'
```
Replace username, password, abc.com, xyz.com and port with these settings specific to your network.
Quit R and launch again.

This should solve your problem with 'libcurl' and 'curl' method. However, I have not tried it with 'httr'. One way to do that with 'httr' only for that session is as follows:

library(httr)
set_config(use_proxy(url="abc.com",port=8080, username="username", password="password"))

You need to substitute settings specific to your n/w in relevant fields.

User · Answer

Simplest way to get everything working in RStudio under Windows 10   Open up Internet Explorer  select Internet Options       Open editor for Environment variables       Add a variable HTTP PROXY in form   HTTP PROXY http   username password localhost port    Example   HTTP PROXY http   John JohnPassword localhost 8080            RStudio should work

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For RStudio just you have to do this   Firstly  open RStudio like always  select from the top menu    Tools-Global Options-Packages  Uncheck the option  Use Internet Explorer library proxy for HTTP  And then close the Rstudio  furthermore you have to    Find the file   Renviron  in your computer  most probably you would find it here  C  Users your user name Documents  Note that if it does not exist you can creat it just by writing this command in RStudio   file edit     Renviron    Add these two lines to the initials of the file   options internet info   0   http proxy  http   user id password your proxy your port     And that s it

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On Mac OS  I found the best solution here  Quoting the author  two simple steps are   1  Open Terminal and do the following   export http proxy http   staff-proxy ul ie 8080 export HTTP PROXY http   staff-proxy ul ie 8080   2  Run R and do the following   Sys setenv http proxy  http   staff-proxy ul ie 8080     double-check this with   Sys getenv  http proxy     I am behind university proxy  and this solution worked perfectly  The major issue is to export the items in Terminal before running R  both in upper- and lower-case

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My solution on a Windows 7  32bit   R version 3 0 2  Sys setenv http proxy  http   proxy   add your proxy here   8080    setInternt2  updateR 2

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The problem is with your curl options  ndash  the RCurl package doesn t seem to use internet2 dll  You need to specify the port separately  and will probably need to give your user login details as network credentials  e g    opts  lt - list    proxy            999 999 999 999      proxyusername    mydomain  myusername      proxypassword    mypassword      proxyport       8080   getURL  http   stackoverflow com    opts   opts    Remember to escape any backslashes in your password   You may also need to wrap the URL in a call to curlEscape

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On Windows 7 I solved this by going into my environment settings  try this link for how  and adding user variables http proxy and https proxy with my proxy details

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Inspired by all the responses related on the internet  finally I ve found the solution to correctly configure the Proxy for R and Rstudio    There are several steps to follow  perhaps some of the steps are useless  but the combination works    Add environment variables http proxy and https proxy with proxy details   variable name  http proxy variable value  https   user id password your proxy your port   variable name  https proxy variable value  https    user id password your proxy your port  If you start R from a desktop icon  you can add the --internet flag to the target line  right click -  Properties   e g  C  Program Files R R-2 8 1 bin Rgui exe  --internet2 For RStudio just you have to do this   Firstly  open RStudio like always  select from the top menu   Tools-Global Options-Packages  Uncheck the option  Use Internet Explorer library proxy for HTTP Find the file   Renviron  in your computer  most probably you would find it here  C  Users your user name Documents    Note that  if it does not exist you can create it just by writing this command in R   file edit     Renviron     Then add these six lines to the initials of the file   options internet info   0   http proxy   https    user id password your proxy your port  http proxy user   user id password  https proxy   https    user id password0 your proxy your port  https proxy user   user id password  ftp proxy   user id password your proxy your port  Restart R  Type the following commands in R to assure that the configuration above works well   Sys getenv  http proxy    Sys getenv  http proxy user    Sys getenv  https proxy    Sys getenv  https proxy user    Sys getenv  ftp proxy    Now you can install the packages as you want by using the command like   install packages  mlr  method  libcurl     It s important to add method  libcurl   otherwise it won t work

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Tried all of these and also the solutions using netsh  winhttp etc  Geek On Acid s answer helped me download packages from the server but none of these solutions worked for using the package I wanted to run  twitteR package    The best solution is to use a software that let s you configure system-wide proxy   FreeCap  free  and Proxifier  trial  worked perfectly for me at my company   Please note that you need to remove proxy settings from your browser and any other apps that you have configured to use proxy as these tools provide system-wide proxy for all network traffic from your computer

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I had the same problem at my office and I solved it adding the proxy in the destination of the R shortcut  clik on right button of the R icon  preferences  and in the destination field add    C  Program Files R your R version bin Rgui exe  http proxy http   user id passwod your proxy your port    Be sure to put the directory where you have the R program installed  That works for me  Hope this help

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If you start R from a desktop icon  you can add the --internet flag to the target line  right click -  Properties  e g    C  Program Files R R-2 8 1 bin Rgui exe  --internet2

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