Issue Using download_hydat()

[shirazi25]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the tidyhydat package, but I'm facing an issue when attempting to download the HYDAT database. I used the download_hydat() function and also tried accessing the direct link(https://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/)), but I encountered the following error:

download_hydat()
Error in httr2::req_perform():
! Failed to perform HTTP request.
Caused by error in curl::curl_fetch_memory():
! Timeout was reached [collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca]: Failed to connect to collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca port 443 after 10010 ms: Timeout was reached
Run rlang::last_trace() to see where the error occurred.

I also tried running rlang::last_trace(), but it didn’t provide additional insights.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Could this be a server-side problem, or is there a workaround?

[boshek]

👋 . Can you please post the output of sessionInfo() in a session where you are experiencing this error? In addition can you try some variations on computer and network? For example do you get the same error with the same computer on a different network?

Another possibility is that something is changing your timeout value. In that same session can you try seeing what the curl timeout value is a la: getOption("timeout")

[shirazi25]

Thank you for the tips! The issue was with my network. After switching to a different network, I was able to download the HYDAT database successfully.

Thanks again for your help!