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DeltaIV
DeltaIV

Reputation: 5646

Cannot install RStudio addins on my Windows laptop from behind proxy

My session info (basically it's Microsoft R Open 3.4.1, RStudio 1.0.153, Windows 10 64 bit)

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils    
[5] datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] RevoUtilsMath_10.0.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] httr_1.3.1       compiler_3.4.1  
 [3] R6_2.2.0         RevoUtils_10.0.6
 [5] tools_3.4.1      withr_2.0.0     
 [7] curl_2.6         memoise_1.1.0   
 [9] git2r_0.19.0     digest_0.6.12   
[11] devtools_1.13.3

I'm trying to install some RStudio addins without success. Whatever addin I try to install, the recommended procedure of using devtools::install_github (see Installation) fails with the same error message:

> devtools::install_github("benmarwick/wordcountaddin", type = "source", dependencies = TRUE)
Installation failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer
> devtools::install_github("rstudio/addinexamples", type = "source")
Installation failed: Failure when receiving data from the peer

I work behind a company proxy. I am able to install R packages from CRAN without problems:

> install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into ....
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://mran.microsoft.com/snapshot/2017-09-01/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/devtools_1.13.3.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 443758 bytes (433 KB)
downloaded 433 KB

package ‘devtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
....

How can I install RStudio addins?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 241

Answers (1)

Patrik_P
Patrik_P

Reputation: 3200

You can install from github using proxy settings with httr package:

library(httr)
with_config(use_proxy(url='proxy url', port = port_number, 
                      username="username", password="yourpass"), 
            devtools::install_github('github/directory'))

Upvotes: 1

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