(a) that's gd news (#ty) (b) genuine apologies for my confusion (c) why was the introduction of reliance on a third-party site even under consideration?
> On Mar 7, 2019, at 09:32, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not "stealth fixed"! It was never there... (on the release branch) > > The timestamp checking code is still present in R-devel. I presume something > needs to be done about the breakage. > > - pd > >> On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:38 , Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is> wrote: >> >> It's fixed in the RC that's GA on the 11th. >> >> I think perhaps "stealth fixed" may be more appropro since it's not in SVN >> logs, Bugzilla nor noted prominently in any of the various NEWS* files. >> >> Then there's the "why was the core R installation using a third party, >> non-HTTPS site for this to begin with". >> >> And, in other news, there are tests in the R source that rely on a check of >> `foo.bar` for connectivity. `.bar` is a valid domain and `foo.bar` is >> registered. Thankfully there's no current IP address associated with it. >> Anything under `*.invalid` (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.invalid) might be >> a better choice as well since that won't break the reason for the >> connectivity checks and won't arbitrarily send telemetry pings to third >> parties in the even anyone outside of R Core decides to run the tests (say, >> when patching something in R). >> >> -boB >> >>> On Mar 7, 2019, at 07:54, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: >>> >>> I can confirm the same when checking on travis with r-devel. >>> >>> And thanks for the tip with >>> >>> env: >>> - _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=0 >>> >>> In .travis.yml >>> >>> Seems to be working now >>> >>> Rainer >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 7 Mar 2019, at 12:48, Ralf Herold <ralf.her...@mailbox.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> >>>> Checking a new package under development produces a warning in a local >>>> R-devel MS Windows environment (output below). >>>> >>>> Building it with R-devel on Travis fails (because warnings are changed to >>>> errors), but is successful when setting environment variable >>>> _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_ to zero. >>>> >>>> No issue occurs when checking and building with R-stable and R-oldrel on >>>> Travis, or with any R version on win-builder.r-project.org. >>>> >>>> The warning concerns using http://worldclockapi.com/, which however seems >>>> out of service ("The web app you have attempted to reach is currently >>>> stopped and does not accept any requests."). This is referenced in the >>>> main function for R CMD check >>>> (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/tools/R/check.R) and may >>>> concern more R-devel than R-package-devel. I am posting here to check if >>>> the issue was noticed by other package developers and to check the impact. >>>> >>>> Thanks for any suggestions. >>>> Best regards, >>>> Ralf >>>> >>>> >>>> PS C:\Users\username> & 'C:\Program Files\R\R-devel\bin\R.exe' CMD check >>>> E:\mypackage_0.1.2.3.tar.gz --as-cran >>>> * using log directory 'C:/Users/username/ctrdata.Rcheck' >>>> * using R Under development (unstable) (2019-03-05 r76200) >>>> * using platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32 (64-bit) >>>> * using session charset: ISO8859-1 >>>> * using option '--as-cran' >>>> [...] >>>> * checking package directory ... OK >>>> * checking for future file timestamps ...Warning in file(con, "r") : >>>> cannot open URL 'http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now': HTTP status >>>> was '403 Site Disabled' >>>> WARNING >>>> unable to verify current time >>>> * checking 'build' directory … OK >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ## Ralf Herold >>>> ## mailto: ralf.her...@mailbox.org [S/MIME] >>>> ## https://paediatricdata.eu/ >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rainer M. Krug >>> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >>> PGP: 0x0F52F982 >>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > >
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