title: "Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)" in R
body: <p>I am getting this error when i run this code below to download data</p>
  
  <p>Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Failed to connect to course1.winona.edu port 80: Timed out</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated</p>
  
  <p>My code</p>
  
  <pre><code>library(RCurl)
  urlfile &lt;-'http://course1.winona.edu/bdeppa/Stat%20425/Data/Boston_Housing.csv'
  downloaded &lt;- getURL(urlfile, ssl.verifypeer=FALSE)
  connection &lt;- textConnection(downloaded)
  dataset &lt;- read.csv(connection, header=FALSE)
  </code></pre>