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Hi All:
Can someone point me to where all the policies such as this one are posted.
This may affect a package I have, and one problem I have is different people
have differing ideas of what defines a "graceful" exit.
Thanks,
Roy
> On Dec 6, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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