{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/877","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/877/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/877/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/877/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/877","id":94952539,"number":877,"title":"'install_github' gives timeout reached error","user":{"login":"dnchari","id":6037028,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6037028?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari","html_url":"https://github.com/dnchari","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-07-14T14:05:45Z","updated_at":"2015-07-28T01:45:18Z","closed_at":null,"body":" `install_github('hadley/readr', host = \"api.github.com\")`\r\nDownloading github repo hadley/readr@master\r\nError in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : \r\n  Timeout was reached\r\nIs this due to proxy/firewall? I tried the solution mentioned here, but did not work\r\nhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/17783686/solution-how-to-install-github-when-there-is-a-proxy"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/comments/125403058","html_url":"https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/877#issuecomment-125403058","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hadley/devtools/issues/877","id":125403058,"user":{"login":"dnchari","id":6037028,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6037028?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari","html_url":"https://github.com/dnchari","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dnchari/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-28T01:45:18Z","updated_at":"2015-07-28T01:45:18Z","body":"You might be behind firewall, need to use proxy settings from 'httr' package. I could solve the issue using proxy settings. Please check if you can access github and then use proxy settings."}}