[rkward-tracker] [ rkward-Feature Requests-3381036 ] seting up proxy info on GNU/Linux with Gnome

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Feature Requests item #3381036, was opened at 2011-07-28 17:07
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Category: Settings / options
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Xavier de Pedro (xavidp)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: seting up proxy info on GNU/Linux with Gnome

Initial Comment:
Hi all:

I'm using RKward 0.5.6 with R 2.13 for work inside the Gnome 2.x environment on a GNU/Linux machine (Ubuntu 11.04, 64 bits). Our research center is behind a firewall.

When I try to fetch some information from internet with some XML functions, I can't do it thorugh RKWard. Example (between lines of dashes):
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> require(XML)
Loading required package: XML
> u = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html"
> t = readHTMLTable(u)[[1]]
Error in htmlParse(doc) : 
  error in creating parser for http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_date.html
Calls: readHTMLTable -> readHTMLTable -> htmlParse -> .Call
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However, when I run the same lines on a terminal in the same computer, they all run fine (no errors reported for htmlparse).

The computer has already been setup to use the firewall in R on a console, by means of adding this line to /etc/R/Renviron file:

HTTP_PROXY=${HTTP_PROXY="http://conf_www.ir.vhebron.net:8081"}

just above where it says;:
 ### Local Variables: ***

Therefore, I guess that this is some sort of issue of missing proxy information for RKward when on a Gnome-based environment. All other gnome-based programs run fine (prxoy info added everwhere as needed).

I tried adding info for the proxy in systemsettings, so that KDE dialogues for network config are open at the gnome desktop, and setting up there the proxy info, but no way: rkward produces the same error.
 
Konqueror, as a reference, can browse internet, with the proxy info.
But I don't know how to do that with RKWard.

Any idea?

Thanks in advanced

Xavier de Pedro, Ph.D.


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