[R-pkg-devel] Checking for future file timestamps - warning with worldclockapi HTTP status 403 Site Disabled
Rainer M Krug
R@|ner @end|ng |rom krug@@de
Tue Mar 19 12:11:17 CET 2019
Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed? I would like to remove the _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=0 but would like to know in advance.
Thanks
Rainer
> On 8 Mar 2019, at 10:03, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think you can put this in appveyor.yml:
>
> environment:
> _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_: 0
>
> before the "build_script" section.
>
> Gabor
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:15 AM Marta Karaś <marta.karass using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have faced the same problem with using http://worldclockapi.com/. I dealt
>> with Travis fail (because warnings are changed to errors) after setting
>> environment variable _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_ to zero, as adviced above.
>>
>> How I deal with appveyor fail for the same reason? It may be seen in my
>> built output here (link)
>> <https://ci.appveyor.com/project/martakarass/adept/build/job/vq4ncvg6qbh526u4>.
>> I googled but was unable to find the equivalent of
>>
>> env:
>> - _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=0
>>
>>
>> for appveyor. Would appreciate any hint a lot - thank you!
>> Marta
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 2:53 PM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As of ~7 hours ago, the warning is suppressed:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/31ee14c620eb1b939acd322f3b5617f998aab8e8
>>>
>>> (But the service still doesn't work)
>>>
>>> Hadley
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:03 AM Hadley Wickham <h.wickham using gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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 <bob using 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 <pdalgd using 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 <bob using 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 <Rainer using 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.herold using 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.herold using mailbox.org [S/MIME]
>>>>>>>>> ## https://paediatricdata.eu/
>>>>>>>>>
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