> Can you please verify the behaviour is still the same in a recent R-devel or
> at least R-2.13.1? And that there was no other already answered request on
> R-help or R-devel re. timeouts?
The code below is R 2.13.1. It shows that the timeout time is more
than 3 minutes, although it was set to 5 seconds.
> options(timeout=5)
> system.time(download.file("http://123.123.123.123";, dest=tempfile()))
trying URL 'http://123.123.123.123'
Error in download.file("http://123.123.123.123";, dest = tempfile()) :
cannot open URL 'http://123.123.123.123'
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file("http://123.123.123.123";, dest = tempfile()) :
unable to connect to '123.123.123.123' on port 80.
Timing stopped at: 0 0 189.375
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
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