R devel - Oct 2003 - R 1.8.0 Windows-source compilation-internet.Rout.save

Let me firstly thank the R Core Team for their tremendous efforts in
providing R 1.8.0. My following comment should therefore be understood as an
"fyi-only".

I source compiled R 1.8.0 for windows with ATLAS (source compiled, too).
Everything works fine and R is running flawlessly! However, running "make
check" stops during processing "internet.R". I checked the
"internet.Rout.Save" and found the following two temptative
"culprits":

1)
> try(zz <- url("http://foo.bar", "r"))
unable to resolve 'foo.bar'.
Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open
connection

and further down in the file:

2)
> try(finger("root"))  ## only works if your site provides a finger
daemon
Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established

which stopped the "make check". Everything else was exectuted
correctly in
the "internet.R" file. Because R 1.8.0 is running fine and no other
obstacles occured during compilation (recommended packages and all docs, as
well) I ignored this error.

Thks again for your tremendous efforts and provision of this release!

Bernhard



Dr. Bernhard Pfaff
Global Debt Research - Index and Quantitative Strategy
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Phone:	+49 (0)69 713 12273 
Mobile: 	na 
Fax:	+49 (0)69 713 19816

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Pfaff, Bernhard wrote:
> Let me firstly thank the R Core Team for their tremendous efforts in
> providing R 1.8.0. My following comment should therefore be understood as
an
> "fyi-only".
> 
> I source compiled R 1.8.0 for windows with ATLAS (source compiled, too).
> Everything works fine and R is running flawlessly! However, running
"make
> check" stops during processing "internet.R". I checked the
> "internet.Rout.Save" and found the following two temptative
"culprits":
> 
> 1)
> 
>>try(zz <- url("http://foo.bar", "r"))
> 
> unable to resolve 'foo.bar'.
> Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open
connection
> 
> and further down in the file:
> 
> 2)
> 
>>try(finger("root"))  ## only works if your site provides a
finger daemon
> 
> Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established
That does not stop the ckecks. Both errors are expected (therefore the 
try() around the lines!).

Uwe Ligges

> which stopped the "make check". Everything else was exectuted
correctly in
> the "internet.R" file. Because R 1.8.0 is running fine and no
other
> obstacles occured during compilation (recommended packages and all docs, as
> well) I ignored this error.
> 
> Thks again for your tremendous efforts and provision of this release!
> 
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Bernhard Pfaff
> Global Debt Research - Index and Quantitative Strategy
> Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
> Phone:	+49 (0)69 713 12273 
> Mobile: 	na 
> Fax:	+49 (0)69 713 19816
> 
> <http://www.drkwresearch.com>
> Bloomberg: DRKW<GO>
> 
> 
> 
>
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> Pfaff, Bernhard wrote:
> 
> > Let me firstly thank the R Core Team for their tremendous efforts in
> > providing R 1.8.0. My following comment should therefore be 
> understood as an
> > "fyi-only".
> > 
> > I source compiled R 1.8.0 for windows with ATLAS (source 
> compiled, too).
> > Everything works fine and R is running flawlessly! However, 
> running "make
> > check" stops during processing "internet.R". I checked
the
> > "internet.Rout.Save" and found the following two temptative 
> "culprits":
> > 
> > 1)
> > 
> >>try(zz <- url("http://foo.bar", "r"))
> > 
> > unable to resolve 'foo.bar'.
> > Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to
open connection
> > 
> > and further down in the file:
> > 
> > 2)
> > 
> >>try(finger("root"))  ## only works if your site provides
a
> finger daemon
> > 
> > Error in make.socket(host, port) : Socket not established
> 
> That does not stop the ckecks. Both errors are expected 
> (therefore the 
> try() around the lines!).
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
Hello Uwe,

thks for your quick response. That is what I thought, too. I investigated
the "internet.Rout.fail":

.
.
.
> ## check graceful failure:
> try(zz <- url("http://foo.bar", "r"))
Error in url("http://foo.bar", "r") : unable to open
connection
In addition: Warning message: 
cannot open: HTTP status was `500 Can't resolve DNS name'
> 
the last two lines do differ from "internet.Rout.save"
.
.
.
and your are right about 2). It seems that the culprit rather is:
> read.table("ftp://ftp.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/datasets/csb/ch11b.dat")
Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection
Execution halted

but, that's not an issue for R, rather an issue about Win NT setup, I guess.

Thks, again
Bernhard

> 
> > which stopped the "make check". Everything else was 
> exectuted correctly in
> > the "internet.R" file. Because R 1.8.0 is running fine and
no other
> > obstacles occured during compilation (recommended packages 
> and all docs, as
> > well) I ignored this error.
> > 
> > Thks again for your tremendous efforts and provision of 
> this release!
> > 
> > Bernhard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dr. Bernhard Pfaff
> > Global Debt Research - Index and Quantitative Strategy
> > Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
> > Phone:	+49 (0)69 713 12273 
> > Mobile: 	na 
> > Fax:	+49 (0)69 713 19816
> > 
> > <http://www.drkwresearch.com>
> > Bloomberg: DRKW<GO>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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