Changing Tor identity in R

Question

I am using Tor in combination with R and would like to change my IP for each new request. The code I have is as follows:

library(RCurl)
opts <- list(proxy=\"1         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, but managed to make it work after installing Privoxy as a http-proxy and setting it up as explained here. Then, this is the code I used in R:

library(RCurl)
# check current IP address
print(getURL("http://ifconfig.me/ip"))
# proxy options
opts <- list(proxy="127.0.0.1", proxyport=8118)
# opening connection with TOR
con <- socketConnection(host="127.0.0.1",port=9051)
print(getURL("http://ifconfig.me/ip", .opts = opts))  

for (i in 1:10)
    {
    writeLines('AUTHENTICATE \"password\"\r\nSIGNAL NEWNYM\r\n', con=con)
    Sys.sleep(5)
    print(getURL("http://ifconfig.me/ip", .opts = opts)) 
    Sys.sleep(5)
    }  

Make sure you are using manual settings for the TCP connection, with address 127.0.0.1:9051, and the authentication method is "password", substituting the password between double quotes in the code above with the one you set.