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
