[R-pkg-devel] Internet resources and Errors

[Hiroaki Yutani]

Hi,

Regarding Solaris, while the criteria is unknown, it seems Solaris can
be excluded from the CRAN check targets when there's a good reason not
to support Solaris. My package got a failure on Solaris check and I
resubmitted with the following comment, then Solaris disappeared from
the check results [1].

> I would like to request to exclude Solaris from the build targets because Solaris is not a supported platform by Rust. This should be in line with the treatments of other CRAN packages that use Rust; gifski, baseflow, and salso are not built on Solaris. I'm sorry that I didn't write this in the first submission.

Again, I'm not sure on what criteria they decided to accept my
suggestion. It's unclear if your package is the case. Some months ago,
I asked "How can I avoid Solaris build on CRAN?" on this mailing list
[2], but I got no reply. So, probably no one knows the right answer...

Best,
Hiroaki Yutani

[1]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_string2path.html
[2]: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2021q3/007262.html

2021年9月24日(金) 23:50 Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel
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>
> 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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