setInternet2
Enable or Disable the Use of Internet Explorer Settings for Internet Access

Description

This function used to read proxy settings from Internet Explorer, but as of R 3.3.0, is now defunct. Use of setInternet2 should be replaced with the method = "wininet" argument to the url and download.file functions.

Usage

setInternet2(use = TRUE)

Arguments

use a logical value.
  • If TRUE or FALSE, emit an error indicating that setInternet2 is defunct.
  • If NA, returns NA for backwards compatibility.
Value
NA to indicate that this function is defunct.
See Also
url, download.file
Examples
setInternet2(NA)

## Not run: readLines(url("http://www.google.com", method="wininet")) ## End(Not run)

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