climate (version 1.2.1)

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)

Value

No return value, called for side effects

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

# \donttest{
 link = "https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/2019/123300-99999-2019.gz"
 output = tempfile()
 test_url(link = link, output = output)
# }