Enable control for timing out of updateR() #184
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When there is a slow internet connection, updateR() tends to fail and the function does not provide arguments for controlling the timeout (as one could do with the low-level installation functions like install.packages().
Describe the solution you'd like
Either an argument for controlling the timeout, or opening up the use of ... so that one can access the timeout available to low-level download/installation functions.
Describe alternatives you've considered
As described in the previous section
Additional context
Nothing more to add.