On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: >> 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. >
Please set options(internet.info=0) and re-run your test. Are you running this from a command-line R or do you have any graphics or GUIs running? (I'm asking because any fast handler activity will cancel timeouts) Thanks, Simon >> 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 >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel