"Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)" in R

Question

I am getting this error when i run this code below to download data

Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Failed to connect to course1.winona.edu port 80: Timed out

Any help would be appreciated

My code

library(RCurl)
urlfile <-'http://course1.winona.edu/bdeppa/Stat%20425/Data/Boston_Housing.csv'
downloaded <- getURL(urlfile, ssl.verifypeer=FALSE)
connection <- textConnection(downloaded)
dataset <- read.csv(connection, header=FALSE)

Answer 1

I don't think you need anything beyond read.csv . This works for me:

urlfile <-'http://course1.winona.edu/bdeppa/Stat%20425/Data/Boston_Housing.csv'
dataset <- read.csv(urlfile)