Set maximum request time. — timeout • httr

Set maximum request time.

timeout(seconds)

Arguments

seconds: number of seconds to wait for a response until giving up. Can not be less than 1 ms.

Details

This timeout is passed on to curl::handle_setopt(). See there and curl::curl_options() for more details.

See also

Other config: add_headers(), authenticate(), config(), set_cookies(), use_proxy(), user_agent(), verbose()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
GET("http://httpbin.org/delay/3", timeout(1))
GET("http://httpbin.org/delay/1", timeout(2))
} # }