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kyle-messier and others added 3 commits May 26, 2026 18:53
Retry SPEI download across fallback endpoints when preflight or single-endpoint attempts fail. Relax gridMET/TerraClimate first-URL preflight from hard stop to warning and proceed with direct download attempts. Add shared live-test transient skip helpers and apply them to drought/gridMET/TerraClimate live tests with new regression coverage.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Avoid interactive NASA token prompt during covr package_coverage runs by skipping the setup_nasa_token interactive branch test when AMADEUS_COVERAGE_CI=true.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
The test-coverage-local workflow has been hitting the 6-hour job
timeout on some runs because covr::package_coverage(type = "all")
also rebuilds vignettes and runs \donttest{} examples, both of which
trigger heavy network downloads against external providers that can
hang indefinitely. Patch coverage is calculated from the tests suite,
which already exercises every public function, so switch to
type = "tests" and add a 45-minute job-level timeout-minutes as a
safety net.

The SPEI live test (test-drought-live.R) intermittently fails on CI
because download_drought(source = "spei") pulls a multi-gigabyte
netCDF from spei.csic.es; GitHub-hosted runners frequently hit
partial-transfer / connection-reset errors against that endpoint
even though the same call succeeds locally. Replace the full
download with a HEAD-request smoke check against the candidate URL
list compiled in download_drought(), which still validates the
function's upstream-URL contract without depending on a multi-GB
transfer to complete.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview

This PR reduces coverage/live-test flakiness by avoiding heavy SPEI downloads, making transient upstream failures skippable in live tests, and adjusting download preflight behavior for GridMET/TerraClimate.

Changes:

  • Switch coverage collection to test-only mode and add a 45-minute workflow timeout.
  • Add transient-live-issue skip helpers and apply them to drought/GridMET/TerraClimate live tests.
  • Add mocked regression tests for transient preflight failures and SPEI alternate endpoint retries.

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Copilot reviewed 11 out of 11 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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.github/workflows/test-coverage.R Uses test-only coverage to avoid examples/vignettes triggering heavy downloads.
.github/workflows/test-coverage-local.yaml Adds a job timeout for coverage CI.
R/download.R Changes GridMET/TerraClimate preflight handling and retries SPEI candidate endpoints after failed results.
tests/testthat/helper-skips.R Adds helpers for detecting/skipping transient live upstream failures.
tests/testthat/test-coverage-followup.R Skips an interactive token test during coverage CI.
tests/testthat/test-drought.R Adds SPEI retry coverage for alternate endpoint fallback.
tests/testthat/test-drought-live.R Replaces full SPEI live download with mirror reachability smoke test and wraps live downloads.
tests/testthat/test-gridmet.R Adds mocked coverage for transient preflight failure.
tests/testthat/test-gridmet-live.R Deduplicates live download assertions through a helper.
tests/testthat/test-terraclimate.R Adds mocked coverage for transient preflight failure.
tests/testthat/test-terraclimate-live.R Deduplicates live download assertions through a helper.

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Comment on lines +6 to +12
tryCatch(
expr,
error = function(e) {
skip_if_transient_live_issue(e)
stop(e)
}
)
Comment on lines +6 to +12
tryCatch(
expr,
error = function(e) {
skip_if_transient_live_issue(e)
stop(e)
}
)
Comment thread R/download.R
Comment on lines +3499 to +3505
warning(
paste0(
"Preflight URL check failed; attempting direct download ",
"for year validation.\n"
),
call. = FALSE
)
Comment thread R/download.R
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warning(
paste0(
"Preflight URL check failed; attempting direct download ",
"for year validation.\n"
),
call. = FALSE
)
kyle-messier and others added 2 commits May 27, 2026 09:50
Switching covr to type='tests' surfaced a pre-existing test failure
that does not occur under type='all' (likely a different covr harness).
Run 742 on main with type='all' completed in 5min, so the 6h hang in
PR #243 was sporadic, not deterministic. The 45-minute job timeout
added in this PR is sufficient to bound any future hang.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
download_gridmet() and download_terraclimate() lack explicit year-range
validation; the expected error in the temporal-range expect_error block
depends on a remote 404 propagating through download_run_method(). That
propagation is timing-sensitive under covr's serialized test runner and
flakes in coverage CI even though all parallel R CMD check jobs pass.

Skip the block when AMADEUS_COVERAGE_CI=true so a non-deterministic
network behavior cannot zero out the coverage signal. The test still
runs in all other CI jobs (lint, R CMD check, scheduled live tests).

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
@kyle-messier kyle-messier merged commit eb06b6e into main May 27, 2026
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