Can you tell if the failure to download was due to a Solaris-specific issue or due to the Solaris test machine not being fully connected to the internet?
-Bill On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 7:50 AM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal via R-package-devel <r-package-devel@r-project.org> 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 > > > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > ***Note new street address*** > 110 McAllister Way > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: https://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK > Jr. > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
