CRAN: Error(s) in re-building vignettes

[petermeissner]

Dear maintainer,

Please see the problems shown on https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_robotstxt.html.

Please correct before 2023-03-15 to safely retain your package on CRAN.

Best, -k

... relevant error lines:

checking re-building of vignette outputs ... [4s/10s] ERROR
Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
  ...
--- re-building ‘using_robotstxt.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Quitting from lines 126-131 (using_robotstxt.Rmd)
Error: processing vignette ‘using_robotstxt.Rmd’ failed with diagnostics:
Timeout was reached: [wikipedia.org] Failed to connect to wikipedia.org port 80 after 5255 ms: Couldn't connect to server
--- failed re-building ‘using_robotstxt.Rmd’

SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘using_robotstxt.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

[pedrobtz]

@petermeissner building the vignettes works okay localy. Can this be just a random network failure? What can we do here?

[hrbrmstr]

I found it best to disable external network checks in CRAN test for literally anything I have left on CRAN. It's just not worth the trouble IMO.

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[petermeissner]

Yes, I could reproduce the error yesterday evening, now it works - I assume there was a hickup on wikipedia.org/robots.txt.

Going with @hrbrmstr approach would be best, I think: Make the vignette not use anything that involves real network calls. @pedrobtz maybe you have a clever idea for how to mock/handle this.

[pedrobtz]

Would it be possible to submit already the vignettes/using_robotstxt.html or it needs to be built on CRAN side?

[petermeissner]

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