Do regular tests of our download code.

[robkooper]

Disabling the tests is not a perfect solution. We should have a new test that is run every week to make sure our download code is not broken (or to detect a site it down).

Originally posted by @robkooper in https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/issues/2910#issuecomment-1043190827

[serbinsh]

From slack discussion

@infotroph provided some thoughts

"You’ll use some combination of the testthat::skip_* functions. the fastest immediate option is skip_on_ci, with the caveat that I don’t know how often anyone calls the tests NOT on CI these days."

"Eventually, we could set it to, say, skip when some other environment variable we control (e.g. PECAN_RUN_DATA_DOWNLOAD_CHECKS?) is not set. Then we could skip it on most runs but sometimes kick off a longer-jobs CI that sets that variable."

particularly setting and env variable to kick off these tests. Or we could just do it based on elapsed time...

[PriyanshSarvehi]

Hey, can you assign me to this issue? I would like to work on this one!

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