In gaborcsardi/pingr: Check if a Remote Computer is Up

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pingr: check if a server is alive

The pingr package has tools to check if a remote computer or web server is up and some other related tools.

Installation

Install the package from CRAN:

install.packages("pingr")

If you need the development version, install it from GitHub:

pak::pak("r-lib/pingr")

ICMP ping

The ping() function does ICMP ping, via the system's ping utility:

library(pingr)
ping("127.0.0.1")

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)

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)

TCP ping

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)

Query the public IP address of the computer

my_ip() queries the public IP of the computer, either via DNS or HTTPS:

my_ip()

Check if the computer is online

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()

DNS queries

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)
nsl("google.com", type = 28L)

License

MIT © RStudio

gaborcsardi/pingr documentation built on Jan. 5, 2024, 3:38 a.m.