It appears that the code was added by BDR on 2 Sep 2018: https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/d839b1e04e173f90b51ad809ef0bdb18095abe6f
I assume we are seeing failing R CMD check results because http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now has recently died. It would be appreciated if someone from R-core could look into this as it's currently causing all R-devel builds on travis to fail. Hadley On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:32 AM Bob Rudis <b...@rud.is> wrote: > > (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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
