Policies at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html
Dirk Eddelbuettel has a CRAN policy watch where you can see the changes: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/crp Hadley On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:42 AM Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > > http://hadley.nz > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > ***Note new street address*** > 110 McAllister Way > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr. > -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel