climate (version 1.0.1)

test_url: Download file in a graceful way

Description

Function for downloading & testing url/internet connection according to CRAN policy Example solution strongly based on https://community.rstudio.com/t/internet-resources-should-fail-gracefully/49199/12 as suggested by kvasilopoulos

Usage

test_url(link, output, quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

link

character vector with URL to check

output

character vector for output file name

quiet

logical vector (TRUE or FALSE) to be passed to curl_download function. FALSE by default

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 link = "https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/2019/123300-99999-2019.gz"
 output = tempfile()
 test_url(link = link, output = output)
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }