Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN rules re. web scraping?

2020-01-27 Thread Adam H Sparks
Hi Spencer, To add to what Roy has already provided. If you have tests that require Internet access, you should be using skip_on_cran() for those tests and in your examples using the \donttest{} tags to prevent errors on CRAN servers when Internet is not available or the server is not responding or

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN rules re. web scraping?

2020-01-23 Thread Spencer Graves
  Thanks very much to Iñaki Ucar, Adam H Sparks, and Roy Mendelssohn for their replies that helped me understand what I needed to do to fix problems identified in the CRAN Checks.  I believe that those problems are not fixed in the development version of Ecfun available at "https://github.c

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN rules re. web scraping?

2020-01-22 Thread Iñaki Ucar
On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 02:49, Spencer Graves wrote: > > Hello, All: > > > GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS: > > >* First the good news: I heard from Brian Ripley; see below. > His web site says, "He retired in August 2014 on grounds of ill health." > (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/) I was ple

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN rules re. web scraping?

2020-01-22 Thread Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel
Hi Spencer: I think that message means what it says, and I read it as pretty straightforward and business like. The issue is not web scraping. There are two errors here: 1. You can not write to the user's space without first explicitly asking permission of the user. The suggested policy

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN rules re. web scraping?

2020-01-22 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello, All: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS:   * First the good news:  I heard from Brian Ripley;  see below.  His web site says, "He retired in August 2014 on grounds of ill health." (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/)  I was pleased to see that he seems to be well enough to send me the email