Large file calls timing out

[noahdasanaike]

There are a bunch of files large enough that for most users the download will time out under the R default. This could be fixed with a built-in time-out modification that's defaulted to true and optionally false. For instance,rgeoboundaries::gb_adm1("Canada") , which are hosted with Git LFS, are unlikely to download in the default 60 seconds and thus fail.

[DanRunfola]

Not being an R user - is this a R system level issue, or something that our package itself can modify?

[noahdasanaike]

If this is something you wanted to address, you could do something like:

sys_timeout = getOption('timeout')

options(timeout=9999999)

download.file call

options(timeout=sys_timeout)

which you'd insert wrapping around lines 229 to 234 in rgeoboundaries/R/utils.R.

[DanRunfola]

Thank you! That's incredibly helpful.
Let me ping Rohith, who is intimately familiar with the codebase - @rohith4444 , could you see if we could implement this?

[rohith4444]

Hi @noahdasanaike,

Thank you for your suggestion! I've implemented the timeout modification as you described, and I've also replaced the cache functionality with a temporary approach. I've pushed these changes to the Git repository and tested them thoroughly. Everything seems to be working fine without any timeouts.

Please feel free to test it out on your end and let us know if you encounter any issues or have any further feedback.

Thanks again for your input, and I appreciate your ongoing support in improving the package!

Best regards,
Rohith