[R-pkg-devel] Checking for future file timestamps - warning with worldclockapi HTTP status 403 Site Disabled

Tue Mar 19 12:14:35 CET 2019

AFAICT you can still get a NOTE about it, so I would just leave the
workaround in place:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/87110b6b9e20c324c44766cc8f5816580f681a2a/src/library/tools/R/check.R#L457

G.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:11 AM Rainer M Krug <Rainer using krugs.de> wrote:
>
> 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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