Error saying Error in open connection x rb Timeout was reached

Question

I'm scrap a web page. This is my code:

url_base <- "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html"
map_df(1:100, function(i){
                page <- read_html(sprintf(url_base,i))
                data.frame(IssueID = html_text(html_nodes(page,"h1")),
                       heading = html_text(html_nodes(page,"td")),
                       description = html_text(html_nodes(page,"td")))
}) -> packages

and I'm getting the following error when I try to execute it.

Error in open.connection(x, "rb") :
  Timeout was reached: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 out of 0 bytes received

Answer 1

Hey @Ali, even I had faced the same error, disabling the vpn worked for me. Try it and let me know if it works for you as well. Thank you:)