OK - thanks. I will than disable the checks for CRAN.

Thanks,

Rainer


> On 5 Sep 2018, at 15:37, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
> You should not run on CRAN. Note that the checks are done almost daily oin 
> several platforms, hence the API key is used for about 10 check runs a day.
> 
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
> On 05.09.2018 09:28, Rainer Krug wrote:
>> Hi
>> I have a package at GitHub (https://github.com/rkrug/ROriginStamp) which I 
>> am pre[paring for CRAN.
>> It creates a trusted timestamp using the API fro OriginStamp 
>> (https://originstamp.org/home) which requires an API key. Now this API 
>> should not be made public, as to much traffic through one API key will lead 
>> to it’s blocking.
>> I have stored the key encrypted in the travis.yml, and the package passes 
>> all tests.
>> But if I send it to CRAN, it would fail the tests, as the api key is not in 
>> the package itself.
>> I could disable all tests for CRAN which need the API key, but I think it 
>> would be better tu run the tests there as well (as an additional check to 
>> travis).
>> My question:
>> Is there a way of storing the API key encrypted, so that only the CRAN test 
>> servers can decrypt it, or is there another way can steal with this?
>> Thanks,
>> Rainer
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>> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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