Description
A set of wrappers intended to check, read and download information from the Wikimedia sources. It is specifically created to work with names of celebrities, in which case their information and statistics can be downloaded. Additionally, it also builds links and snippets to use in combination with the function gallery() in netCoin package.
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| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | OK |
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| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | ERROR |
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ERROR
r-patched-linux-x86_64
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
...
--- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429).
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Gateway Timeout (HTTP 504).
INFO: The number of entities (372) exceeds chunksize (50).
INFO: Requesting elements from 1 to 50
INFO: Requesting elements from 51 to 100
INFO: Requesting elements from 101 to 150
INFO: Requesting elements from 151 to 200
INFO: Requesting elements from 201 to 250
INFO: Requesting elements from 251 to 300
INFO: Requesting elements from 301 to 350
INFO: Requesting elements from 351 to 372
INFO: Searching labels, latitude and longitude coordinates, and countries for places.
Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429).
Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:214-224 [unnamed-chunk-16]
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<error/rlang_error>
Error in `colnames<-`:
! attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions
---
Backtrace:
▆
1. └─wikiTools::w_EntityInfo(...)
2. └─base::`colnames<-`(...)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Error: processing vignette 'wiki_utils.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions
--- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’
SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
‘wiki_utils.Rmd’
Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 26, 2026
ERROR
r-patched-linux-x86_64
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: ... --- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Too Many Requests (RFC 6585) (HTTP 429). Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:214-224 [unnamed-chunk-16] ~ ...[truncated]... ed with diagnostics: attempt to set 'colnames' on an object with less than two dimensions --- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 20, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 18, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: ... --- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown INFO: The number of entities (370) exceeds chunksize (50). INFO: Requesting elements from 1 to 50 INFO: Requesting elements from 51 to 100 INFO: Requestin ...[truncated]... : Timeout was reached [xtools.wmcloud.org]: Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds --- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 16, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
re-building of vignette outputs
Error(s) in re-building vignettes: ... --- re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ using rmarkdown Error in doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler): Bad Gateway (HTTP 502). Quitting from wiki_utils.Rmd:184-189 [unnamed-chunk-13] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...[truncated]... rror: processing vignette 'wiki_utils.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: invalid argument type --- failed re-building ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ SUMMARY: processing the following file failed: ‘wiki_utils.Rmd’ Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted