build_site() fails with API error

[pachadotdev]

MWE:

Open any package in RStudio (or clone one from GitHub), then run

pkgdown::build_site

Error:

> build_site()
Error: 
! in callr subprocess.
Caused by error: 
! '/home/pacha/github/cpp11tesseract/docs' is non-empty and not built by pkgdown
ℹ See `$stdout` for standard output.
Type .Last.error to see the more details.
> build_site()
Error: 
! in callr subprocess.
Caused by error: 
! '/home/pacha/github/cpp11tesseract/docs' is non-empty and not built by pkgdown
ℹ See `$stdout` for standard output.
Type .Last.error to see the more details.
> build_site()
Error: 
! in callr subprocess.
Caused by error: 
! API request failed.
ℹ See `$stdout` and `$stderr` for standard output and error.
Type .Last.error to see the more details.

Session info:

> session_info()
─ Session info ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 setting  value
 version  R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
 os       Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
 system   x86_64, linux-gnu
 ui       X11
 language (EN)
 collate  en_CA.UTF-8
 ctype    en_CA.UTF-8
 tz       America/Toronto
 date     2024-10-06
 pandoc   2.9.2.1 @ /usr/bin/ (via rmarkdown)

─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 ! package        * version date (UTC) lib source
   askpass          1.2.0   2023-09-03 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   brio             1.1.4   2023-12-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   bspm             0.5.5   2023-08-22 [2] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   cachem           1.0.8   2023-05-01 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
   callr            3.7.3   2022-11-02 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
   cli              3.6.2   2023-12-11 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   commonmark       1.9.1   2024-01-30 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   cpp11            0.5.0   2024-08-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
 P cpp11tesseract * 5.3.0   2024-09-23 [?] load_all()
   curl             5.0.2   2023-08-14 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   decor            1.0.2   2023-07-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.0)
   desc             1.4.3   2023-12-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   devtools       * 2.4.5   2022-10-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
   digest           0.6.34  2024-01-11 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   ellipsis         0.3.2   2021-04-29 [3] CRAN (R 4.1.1)
   evaluate         0.23    2023-11-01 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   fansi            1.0.6   2023-12-08 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   fastmap          1.1.1   2023-02-24 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
   fs               1.6.3   2023-07-20 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   glue             1.7.0   2024-01-09 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   htmltools        0.5.7   2023-11-03 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   htmlwidgets      1.6.4   2023-12-06 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   httpuv           1.6.14  2024-01-26 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   jsonlite         1.8.8   2023-12-04 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   knitr            1.45    2023-10-30 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   later            1.3.2   2023-12-06 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   lifecycle        1.0.4   2023-11-07 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   magrittr         2.0.3   2022-03-30 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   memoise          2.0.1   2021-11-26 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   mime             0.12    2021-09-28 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   miniUI           0.1.1.1 2018-05-18 [3] CRAN (R 4.0.1)
   pdftools         3.4.0   2023-09-25 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   pillar           1.9.0   2023-03-22 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.3)
   pkgbuild         1.4.3   2023-12-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   pkgconfig        2.0.3   2019-09-22 [3] CRAN (R 4.0.1)
   pkgdown          2.0.7   2022-12-14 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
   pkgload          1.3.4   2024-01-16 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   processx         3.8.3   2023-12-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   profvis          0.3.8   2023-05-02 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
   promises         1.2.1   2023-08-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   ps               1.7.6   2024-01-18 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   purrr            1.0.2   2023-08-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   qpdf             1.3.2   2023-03-17 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.3)
   R6               2.5.1   2021-08-19 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   rappdirs         0.3.3   2021-01-31 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   Rcpp             1.0.12  2024-01-09 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   remotes          2.4.2.1 2023-07-18 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   rlang            1.1.3   2024-01-10 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   rmarkdown        2.25    2023-09-18 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   roxygen2         7.3.1   2024-01-22 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   rprojroot        2.0.4   2023-11-05 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   rstudioapi       0.15.0  2023-07-07 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   sessioninfo      1.2.2   2021-12-06 [3] CRAN (R 4.2.0)
   shiny            1.8.0   2023-11-17 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   stringi          1.8.3   2023-12-11 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   stringr          1.5.1   2023-11-14 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   tibble           3.2.1   2023-03-20 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   urlchecker       1.0.1   2021-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.4.1)
   usethis        * 2.2.2   2023-07-06 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.1)
   utf8             1.2.4   2023-10-22 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   vctrs            0.6.5   2023-12-01 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   withr            3.0.0   2024-01-16 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   xfun             0.41    2023-11-01 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   xml2             1.3.6   2023-12-04 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)
   xtable           1.8-4   2019-04-21 [3] CRAN (R 4.0.1)
   yaml             2.3.8   2023-12-11 [3] CRAN (R 4.3.2)

 [1] /home/pacha/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4
 [2] /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
 [3] /usr/lib/R/site-library
 [4] /usr/lib/R/library

 P ── Loaded and on-disk path mismatch.

[pachadotdev]

the problem is here https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdown/blob/main/R/build-favicons.R#L69
but it is because realfavicongenerator.net is broken, https://realfavicongenerator.net/api/favicon leads to a blank page and the github and email sign in no longer work

[maelle]

Thank you for the report @pachadotdev

[maelle]

https://x.com/RealFavicon/status/1842953341024031026

[maelle]

It now works again! 🎉