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

[Ben Bolker]

  It seems to have gotten worse at the moment (package checking on my 
local machine hangs at this step).  Sorry if this is cross-threading.

On 3/19/19 7:11 AM, Rainer M Krug 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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