Message-ID: <CABdHhvFWTfTHcVvWLqrRne_T76W_+jhwuOYWzbxahPwnip_N1A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2018-12-06T16:22:47Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] New CRAN internet policy
Hi all,
I'd love to get some clarification on what the new internet policy
means for packages like httr:
> Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative
> message if the resource is not available (and not give a check warning nor error).
It's not clear what "internet resource" means here? If it means
dataset, then I think the httr tests and examples are ok. If it means
any use of the internet, I'm not sure what do - httr critically
depends on internet access, so I can't see any way to make it fail
gracefully.
Hadley
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