[Rd] R 1.8.0 Windows-source compilation-internet.Rout.save

[Uwe Ligges]

Pfaff, Bernhard wrote:

> Let me firstly thank the R Core Team for their tremendous efforts in
> providing R 1.8.0. My following comment should therefore be understood as an
> "fyi-only".
> 
> I source compiled R 1.8.0 for windows with ATLAS (source compiled, too).
> Everything works fine and R is running flawlessly! However, running "make
> check" stops during processing "internet.R". I checked the
> "internet.Rout.Save" and found the following two temptative "culprits":
> 
> 1)
> 
>>try(zz <- url("http://foo.bar", "r"))
> 
> unable to resolve 'foo.bar'.
> Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open connection
> 
> and further down in the file:
> 
> 2)
> 
>>try(finger("root"))  ## only works if your site provides a finger daemon
> 
> Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established

That does not stop the ckecks. Both errors are expected (therefore the 
try() around the lines!).

Uwe Ligges


> which stopped the "make check". Everything else was exectuted correctly in
> the "internet.R" file. Because R 1.8.0 is running fine and no other
> obstacles occured during compilation (recommended packages and all docs, as
> well) I ignored this error.
> 
> Thks again for your tremendous efforts and provision of this release!
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> 
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