On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 17:22, Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > [snip] > Now, what if connection is suppressed during package load? There are > basically three use cases out there: > > (1) The package requires additional files for the installation (e.g. > the source code of an external library) that cannot be bundled into > the package due to CRAN restrictions (size). > (2) The package requires additional files for using it (e.g., > datasets, a JAR...) that cannot be bundled into the package due to > CRAN restrictions (size). > (3) Other spurious reasons (e.g. the maintainer decided that package > load was a good place to check an online service availability, etc.). > > Again IMO, (3) shouldn't be allowed in any case; (2) should be a > separate function that the user actively calls to download the files, > and those files should be placed into the user dir, and (3) is the > only legitimate use, but then other mechanism should be provided to > avoid connections during package load. > [snip]
I meant "(1) is the only legitimate use" above. -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
