Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
Dear Dustin, On 2020-08-27 8:26 p.m., Tracy, Josef wrote: Hi John, Duncan explained the cause of the problem, but i'm afraid I didn't follow how one solves it.  Did you manage to get a check without that note? I didn't -- I just disregarded the note assuming that it would go away when the t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Checking for future file timestamps - warning with worldclockapi HTTP status 403 Site Disabled

2020-08-27 Thread Ben Bolker
It seems to have gotten worse at the moment (package checking on my local machine hangs at this step). Sorry if this is cross-threading. On 3/19/19 7:11 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed? I would like to remove the _R_CHECK_SYSTEM_CLOCK_=0 but would like to k

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
Dear Duncan, Thank you and the others who responded to my message. John On 2020-08-27 2:17 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote: R tries to get the time from http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/UTC or http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now The first one doesn't accept UTC as a timezone; it appears

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
R tries to get the time from http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/UTC or http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/utc/now The first one doesn't accept UTC as a timezone; it appears to want etc/UTC instead. The second one is offline. Duncan Murdoch If both of those fail, you'll get the message you

Re: [R-pkg-devel] changing maintainer email address

2020-08-27 Thread Michael Dewey
Dear Josef From the policy Explain any change in the maintainer’s email address and if possible send confirmation from the previous address (by a separate email to cran-submissi...@r-project.org) or explain why it is not possible. Burned into my cortex since I did it incorrectly a few years

[R-pkg-devel] R CMD check "unable to verify current time"

2020-08-27 Thread John Fox
Dear r-package-devel list members, I got the following note when checking two different packages today --as-cran, both under R 4.0.2 and under R-devel, on my Windows 10 and macOS Catalina systems, and on several platforms on rhub: * checking for future file timestamps ... NOTE unable

[R-pkg-devel] changing maintainer email address

2020-08-27 Thread Tracy, Josef
Hi, I submitted a package, "PhysActBedRest" to the CRAN a couple of years ago and am trying to update it. In writing the update, I realized I forgot to update my email address when I changed institutions. As a consequence, when I run CMD check on the updated package there is a NOTE that the m

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package inputenc Error: Unicode char ‐ (U+2010) during Windows build

2020-08-27 Thread Joshua Harrison
Hi Uwe, Thanks for the response and for mentioning the 'tools::' functions. Those functions were super helpful in identifying a hyphen that I missed in a supporting file that roxygen used to build the manual. My package builds without warnings and errors now on a few systems, so I think I am good

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package inputenc Error: Unicode char ‐ (U+2010) during Windows build

2020-08-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hyphens that, e.g., get auto generated in MS Word are non ASCII. You have to declare an appropriate encoding, or even better, replace by regular hypehsn. See functions tools:::showNonASCII tools:::showNonASCIIfile that may help to see where these are... Best, Uwe Ligges On 25.08.2020 20