According to the download.file manual the timeout of a connection can be set
using options(timeout=10). This seems to work as expected on windows, but on
linux the connection does not timeout. I reproduced the problem both 0on
R-2.13 on Ubuntu and on R-2.12.1 on CentOS, but not in Windows.
> options(timeout=5)
> download.file("http://123.123.123.123/bla";, dest=tempfile())
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with the R binaries from CRAN:
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
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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