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PolMine / cwbtools

Tools to create and manage CWB-indexed corpora
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Abort gracefully if internet resource is not available #34

Closed ablaette closed 3 years ago

ablaette commented 3 years ago

The cwbtools package was removed from CRAN because the following aspect of CRAN policy was not met:

Packages which use Internet resources should fail gracefully with an informative message if the resource is not available or has changed (and not give a check warning nor error).

As far as I can see, the following line in corpus_install() violates the CRAN policy:

if (http_error(tarball)) stop("tarball is not available")
ablaette commented 3 years ago

The function will now abort returning FALSE if a tarball is not available.