The pingr package has tools to check if a remote computer or web server is up and some other related tools.
Install the package from CRAN:
install.packages("pingr")If you need the development version, install it from GitHub:
pak::pak("r-lib/pingr")The ping() function does ICMP ping, via the system's ping utility:
library(pingr)#>
#> Attaching package: 'pingr'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
#>
#> nsl
ping("127.0.0.1")#> [1] 0.087 0.301 0.206
By default it sends three packets and measures the time it receives and answer. It waits between sending out the packets, so if you want a really quick check, you can just send a single packet:
ping("127.0.0.1", count = 1)#> [1] 0.182
If a machine is down (or it does not exist), then NA is returned instead
of the roundtrip time:
ping("192.0.2.1", count = 1)#> [1] NA
With TCP ping we can check if a machine is listeing on a TCP port, e.g. if google's search web server is up and running:
ping_port("www.google.com", port = 80, count = 1)#> [1] 19.228
my_ip() queries the public IP of the computer, either via DNS or HTTPS:
my_ip()#> [1] "83.50.96.133"
is_online() checks if the computer is online. It makes three tries:
- Queries myip.opendns.com on OpenDNS, see
my_ip(). - Retrieves icanhazip.com via HTTPS, see
my_ip(). - Retrieve Apple's Captive Portal test page, see
apple_captive_test().
If any of these are successful, it returns TRUE.
is_online()#> [1] TRUE
The package also contains a function to perform DNS queries. This is a
more portable and more functional version of the utils::nsl() function:
nsl("www.r-project.org", type = 1L)#> $answer
#> name class type ttl data
#> 1 www.r-project.org 1 5 6525 cran.wu-wien.ac.at
#> 2 cran.wu-wien.ac.at 1 1 300 137.208.57.37
#>
#> $flags
#> aa tc rd ra ad cd
#> FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
nsl("google.com", type = 28L)#> $answer
#> name class type ttl data
#> 1 google.com 1 28 210 2a00:1450:4003:80f::200e
#>
#> $flags
#> aa tc rd ra ad cd
#> FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
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