Devtools: Using install_github() from behind a proxy

[Mullefa]

I followed this advice to use install_github() from behind a proxy.

However, there is the following problem: if we call install_github() with dependencies = FALSE then the installation will fail if the packages on which it is dependent have not yet been installed; but if we instead set dependencies = TRUE the call will hang as it falls back to install.packages() which does not seem to be aware that the proxy has been set via httr::set_config(httr::use_proxy(...))

[jeroen]

If you're on windows you can try setInternet2()

[hadley]

@jeroenooms I don't think that will work here because install_github() uses httr

[jeroen]

He is specifically complaining about install.packages() ? Maybe I don't understand the issue/

[hadley]

@jeroenooms oops, yes

[Mullefa]

For whatever reason this no longer seems to be an issue.

On a new environment, after installing devtools, I can open up a new R session, use:

httr::set_config(httr::use_proxy(...))

to set the proxy, then:

devtools::install_github("hadley/dplyr")

installs dplyr and all its dependencies. Nice! :)

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