[R] R-3.4.2: make check stops at line 698 of tests/reg-tests-1d.R

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 01/11/2017 8:11 AM, Albrecht Kauffmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> after compiling R-3.4.2 on opensuse leap 42.3, make check failed. Until
> R-3.4.1 I never had a problem with these tests. No, the programm stops
> at the following line of tests/reg-tests-1d.R:
> 
>> ## available.packages() (not) caching in case of errors
>> tools::assertWarning(ap1 <- available.packages(repos = "http://foo.bar"))
>> tools::assertWarning(ap2 <- available.packages(repos = "http://foo.bar"))
>      error in assertCondition(expr, "warning",
>     .exprString = d.expr) :  Got simpleError evaluating of ap2 <-
>     available.packages(repo  ...: wanted warning
> 
> The error message is a result of:      ap2 <- available.packages(repos =
> "http://foo.bar"),
> not of the following condition in the test script:   stopifnot(nrow(ap1)
> == 0, identical(ap1, ap2))  .

What error message did you see?

> 
> ap1 <- available.packages(repos = "http://foo.bar") works well, but the
> following line stops the program.
> 
> After replacing "http://foo.bar" by "http://foo.poi" (every phrase
> different from "bar" works well), reg-test-1d.R passed without error
> message the interpreter.
> 
> Has someone an idea why the original program code stops (only) at line
> 698:
> tools::assertWarning(ap2 <- available.packages(repos =
> "http://foo.bar"))?
> 


Perhaps your system is resolving foo.bar to a web address.  If I use a 
URL for a web page that doesn't have a repository, I still get a 
warning, but the text of the error may explain why you don't.

Duncan Murdoch