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R interface to the fishbase.org database
https://docs.ropensci.org/rfishbase
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rfishbase timeout #152

Closed kleisner closed 5 years ago

kleisner commented 5 years ago

Hi, I'm trying to query rfishbase and any command I use (validate_names, mat, etc.) gives me the following error:

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Timeout was reached: Connection timed out after 10016 milliseconds

Is there an issue with the fishbase servers at this time?

sckott commented 5 years ago

it's down again. we should be on the new server today hopefully

cboettig commented 5 years ago

@kleisner Can you also let us know which version of rfishbase you are using? If you update.packages("rfishbase"), you should find the newer version is much faster and will bypass the API to use a local cache.

kleisner commented 5 years ago

Great thanks for the info! @cboettig I'm using 2.1.2. I just ran the update.packages, but looks like it's the latest version?

cboettig commented 5 years ago

that's strange. should be 3.0.0. (e.g. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rfishbase/index.html). Did you restart R after installing the package?

If restarting does not fix it, can you try: 

install.packages("rfishbase", repo = "http://cran.rstudio.com")

and see if that works?

kleisner commented 5 years ago

Hi--yes, I had restarted to see if that updated the package version, but it was still 2.1.2. I ended up removing the package and just reinstalling and that worked! The rfishbase functions are also now working. Thank you!

cboettig commented 5 years ago

🎉