[R-pkg-devel] Re :Re: Internet resources and Errors

[Maëlle SALMON]

We've summarized some advice around graceful packages in this chapter of the HTTP testing in R book: https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing/graceful.html I hope this can help too! 
 
 
  Le ven., sept. 24, 2021 à 17:03, Ben Bolker<bbolker using gmail.com> a écrit:     I think you're not supposed to stop().

  You should just proceed with the other tests (skipping any 
tests/examples that depend on access to the inaccessible internet 
resources, or values derived from the failing call, to work)

  Does that help?

On 9/24/21 10:49 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel 
wrote:
> 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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