CRAN Package Check Results for Package RCurl

Last updated on 2026-08-12 02:52:27 CEST.

Flavor Version Tinstall Tcheck Ttotal Status Flags
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang NOTE
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc 1.98-1.19 15.01 38.65 53.66 ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang 1.98-1.19 13.00 31.78 44.78 NOTE
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc 1.98-1.19 14.00 32.48 46.48 NOTE
r-devel-windows-x86_64 1.98-1.19 39.00 159.00 198.00 NOTE
r-patched-linux-x86_64 1.98-1.19 18.24 46.31 64.55 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 1.98-1.19 15.35 46.86 62.21 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 1.98-1.19 9.00 44.00 53.00 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 1.98-1.19 25.00 110.00 135.00 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 1.98-1.19 42.00 166.00 208.00 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 1.98-1.19 7.00 65.00 72.00 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 1.98-1.19 25.00 110.00 135.00 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 1.98-1.19 50.00 218.00 268.00 OK

Check Details

Version: 1.98-1.19
Check: R code for possible problems
Result: NOTE Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names: RCurl/R/curlAuthConstants.R (.Names: 1) '.Names' should be changed to 'names'. Flavors: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Version: 1.98-1.19
Check: examples
Result: ERROR Running examples in ‘RCurl-Ex.R’ failed The error most likely occurred in: > base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv") > ### Name: getCurlHandle > ### Title: Create libcurl handles > ### Aliases: getCurlHandle getCurlMultiHandle dupCurlHandle > ### Keywords: IO > > ### ** Examples > > > options(RCurlOptions = list(verbose = TRUE, + followlocation = TRUE, + autoreferer = TRUE, + nosignal = TRUE)) > if(url.exists("https://r-project.org")) { + x = getURL("https://r-project.org") + # here we override one of these. + x = getURL("https://r-project.org", verbose = FALSE) + } * Host r-project.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 137.208.57.37 * Trying 137.208.57.37:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * SSL Trust Anchors: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: /etc/ssl/certs * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS * ALPN: server accepted h2 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=*.r-project.org * start date: Dec 16 00:00:00 2025 GMT * expire date: Jan 16 23:59:59 2027 GMT * issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 * Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (3072/128 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * subjectAltName: "r-project.org" matches cert's "r-project.org" * OpenSSL verify result: 0 * SSL certificate verified via OpenSSL. * Established connection to r-project.org (137.208.57.37 port 443) from 137.208.57.30 port 43284 * using HTTP/2 * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://r-project.org/ * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: HEAD] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: r-project.org] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*] > HEAD / HTTP/2 Host: r-project.org Accept: */* * Request completely sent off < HTTP/2 301 < location: https://www.r-project.org/ < content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:50 GMT < server: Apache * Ignoring the response-body < * Connection #0 to host r-project.org:443 left intact * Issue another request to this URL: 'https://www.r-project.org/' * Host www.r-project.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 137.208.57.37 * Trying 137.208.57.37:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * SSL Trust Anchors: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: /etc/ssl/certs * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS * ALPN: server accepted h2 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=*.r-project.org * start date: Dec 16 00:00:00 2025 GMT * expire date: Jan 16 23:59:59 2027 GMT * issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 * Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (3072/128 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * subjectAltName: "www.r-project.org" matches cert's "*.r-project.org" * OpenSSL verify result: 0 * SSL certificate verified via OpenSSL. * Established connection to www.r-project.org (137.208.57.37 port 443) from 137.208.57.30 port 43290 * using HTTP/2 * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://www.r-project.org/ * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: HEAD] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: www.r-project.org] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*] * [HTTP/2] [1] [referer: https://r-project.org/] > HEAD / HTTP/2 Host: www.r-project.org Accept: */* Referer: https://r-project.org/ * Request completely sent off < HTTP/2 200 < last-modified: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:10:01 GMT < etag: "192f-654fb6701b7c3" < accept-ranges: bytes < content-length: 6447 < vary: Accept-Encoding < content-type: text/html < date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:50 GMT < server: Apache < * Connection #1 to host www.r-project.org:443 left intact * Host r-project.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 137.208.57.37 * Trying 137.208.57.37:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * SSL Trust Anchors: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: /etc/ssl/certs * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS * ALPN: server accepted h2 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=*.r-project.org * start date: Dec 16 00:00:00 2025 GMT * expire date: Jan 16 23:59:59 2027 GMT * issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 * Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (3072/128 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * subjectAltName: "r-project.org" matches cert's "r-project.org" * OpenSSL verify result: 0 * SSL certificate verified via OpenSSL. * Established connection to r-project.org (137.208.57.37 port 443) from 137.208.57.30 port 43306 * using HTTP/2 * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://r-project.org/ * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: r-project.org] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*] > GET / HTTP/2 Host: r-project.org Accept: */* * Request completely sent off < HTTP/2 301 < location: https://www.r-project.org/ < content-length: 338 < content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 < date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:50 GMT < server: Apache * Ignoring the response-body * setting size while ignoring < * Connection #0 to host r-project.org:443 left intact * Issue another request to this URL: 'https://www.r-project.org/' * Host www.r-project.org:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 137.208.57.37 * Trying 137.208.57.37:443... * ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1 * SSL Trust Anchors: * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: /etc/ssl/certs * SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 / x25519 / RSASSA-PSS * ALPN: server accepted h2 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=*.r-project.org * start date: Dec 16 00:00:00 2025 GMT * expire date: Jan 16 23:59:59 2027 GMT * issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 * Certificate level 0: Public key type RSA (2048/112 Bits/secBits), signed using sha256WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 1: Public key type RSA (3072/128 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * Certificate level 2: Public key type RSA (4096/152 Bits/secBits), signed using sha384WithRSAEncryption * subjectAltName: "www.r-project.org" matches cert's "*.r-project.org" * OpenSSL verify result: 0 * SSL certificate verified via OpenSSL. * Established connection to www.r-project.org (137.208.57.37 port 443) from 137.208.57.30 port 43312 * using HTTP/2 * [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://www.r-project.org/ * [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: www.r-project.org] * [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /] * [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*] * [HTTP/2] [1] [referer: https://r-project.org/] > GET / HTTP/2 Host: www.r-project.org Accept: */* Referer: https://r-project.org/ * Request completely sent off < HTTP/2 200 < last-modified: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:10:01 GMT < etag: "192f-654fb6701b7c3" < accept-ranges: bytes < content-length: 6447 < vary: Accept-Encoding < content-type: text/html < date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:50 GMT < server: Apache < * Connection #1 to host www.r-project.org:443 left intact Error in (function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Could not resolve host: r-project.org Calls: getURL -> curlPerform -> <Anonymous> -> fun Execution halted Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc