rvest Error in open.connection(x, “rb”) : Timeout was reached
I'm trying to scrape the content from http://google.com . the error message come out. library(rvest) html("http://google.com") Error in open.connection(x, "rb") : Timeout was reached In addition: Warning message: 'html' is deprecated. Use 'read_html' instead. See help("Deprecated") since I'm using company network ,this maybe caused by firewall or proxy. I try to use set_config ,but not working . user799188 I encountered the same Error in open.connection(x, “rb”) : Timeout was reached issue when working behind a proxy in the office network. Here's what worked for me, library(rvest) url = "http: