diff --git a/rstudio/c9s-python-3.11/run-rstudio.sh b/rstudio/c9s-python-3.11/run-rstudio.sh
index d9f04ddc7..49ed5f611 100755
--- a/rstudio/c9s-python-3.11/run-rstudio.sh
+++ b/rstudio/c9s-python-3.11/run-rstudio.sh
@@ -24,8 +24,12 @@ do
   fi
 done  
 # rstudio terminal cant see environment variables set by the container runtime
-# (which breaks kubectl, to fix this we store the KUBERNETES_* env vars in Renviron.site)
+# (which breaks kubectl, to fix this we store the KUBERNETES_* and proxy_related env vars in Renviron.site)
+# proxy_related env vars need to be lowercase by key to work in RStudio
 env | grep KUBERNETES_ >> /usr/lib64/R/etc/Renviron.site
+env | grep HTTP_PROXY | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' >> /usr/lib64/R/etc/Renviron.site
+env | grep HTTPS_PROXY | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' >> /usr/lib64/R/etc/Renviron.site
+env | grep NO_PROXY | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' >> /usr/lib64/R/etc/Renviron.site
 
 export USER=$(whoami)