Package DatastreamDSWS2R error requesting acces Token

@ Michael

From the error, the request was timed out. You can try the following code to directly send a request to the server.

library(httr)
token_url <- paste("http://product.datastream.com/DSWSClient/V1/DSService.svc/rest/Token?username=",
                   DatastreamUsername,
                   "&password=",
                  DatastreamPassword,
                   sep="")
test <- httr::GET(token_url, httr::timeout(300))
test

It could be a network issue. You need to contact your network team to verify the problem. If you need to connect through a proxy, you can use the following command to set the http_proxy.

Sys.setenv(http_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8080")
DatastreamUsername <- "username"
DatastreamPassword <- "password"
mydsws <- dsws$new(username=DatastreamUsername, password=DatastreamPassword)

127.0.0.1:8080 is my test proxy. You should contact the network or IT team to verify the problem.