[R-pkg-devel] Internet resources and Errors

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

Hi All:

I am getting dinged again on CRAN  (just Solaris for some reason),  and the problem is how to exit if there is a failure of accessing the resource,  I know it has been discussed here before,  but I just am not understanding what is desired to end properly. As I have been reminded:

'Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message
if the resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning nor error).'

All internet calls are wrapped in 'try()'.  If that shows an error,  I  write a message to the screen about the error,  and call stop(), perhaps with a further message in that call.   Somehow this does not appear to meet the standard.    Can someone then please tell me what I should do instead.  The point is I have checked that the access to the internet resources has worked,  i have seen that it hasn't,  now what should be the steps to take to exit gracefully.

I also want to add to what others have said about the frustrations of dealing with Solaris.  I have spent a fair amount of time getting things to  work with Solaris which no one uses.  In this instance the package test is only failing on Solaris.   Not a good use of limited time IMO.

Thanks for any advice.

-Roy



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