[linux] connection never times out
?connections tells us: "Note that this is a timeout for no response, not for the whole operation." And indeed, it will take roughly 20 seconds rather than 60 - at least on the Linux machine I tried it on with R-2.13.1. Best, Uwe Ligges
On 12.07.2011 14:24, jeroen00ms wrote:
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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