Advanced search not working

[wleoncio]

Just tried it today, and advanced_search() doesn't seem to be filtering properly. See example below, hitting a bunch of unrelated packages:

 pkgsearch::advanced_search(Author = "Waldir")
#> - "advanced search" ------------------------- 19470 packages in 0.001 seconds -
#>   #     package        version by                  @ title                     
#>   1 100 ExGaussEstim   0.1     Yousri SLAOUI      5M Quantile Maximization L...
#>   2 100 MagmaClustR    1.1.0   Arthur Leroy       2M Clustering and Predicti...
#>   3 100 chromatographR 0.4.4   Ethan Bass         5M Chromatographic Data An...
#>   4 100 ggbraid        0.2.2   Neal Grantham      8M Braid Ribbons in 'ggplot2'
#>   5 100 blockcpd       1.0.0   Lucas Prates       5M Change Point Detection ...
#>   6 100 jjAnno         0.0.3   Junjun Lao         5M An Annotation Package f...
#>   7 100 DepCens        0.2.1   Silvana Schneider  8M Dependent Censoring Reg...
#>   8 100 epi2me2r       0.1.0   Quentin D. Read    7M Process Nanopore EPI2ME...
#>   9 100 WLogit         1.0     Wencan Zhu         6M Whitening Logistic Regr...
#>  10 100 needy          0.2     Ryan Grannell      9y needy

^{Created on 2023-01-12 with reprex v2.0.2}

I suspect this is related to r-pkg.org currently being offline (see screenshot below), and that it affects other functions in the package, so maybe this might solve itself after some time. In any case, I guess it's good to report so you'd consider improving exception handling in the affected functions. (if it's indeed the case).

[robjhyndman]

r-pkg.org is now online, but this error is still occurring.

[bizzinho]

Can confirm; advanced_search is currently broken. Any fix on the horizon?

[wleoncio]

Looks like it's working again (version 3.1.2 on R 4.2.1):

Closing this issue. Maybe this should also resolve #114 and #115?