Data policy acknowledgment prompt in a non-interactive environment

[istfer]

Hi, thank you very much for this package. I'm a user from the pecan team, we would like to utilize this package in our Ameriflux pipeline in pecan, I believe you've had some brief exchange with Ankur about this.

I'm writing to you about this data policy acknowledgment prompt issue. We would like to run amerifluxr functions in a non-interactive manner. I was wondering if you have any plans for automatized use of this function in the future. I guess we can always modify the code for our purposes on our end, but I wanted to check with you first if you would be willing to consider non-interactive use cases already now. If not, I would also ask if you would consider making any exception for pecan (user), although I can imagine it wouldn't be preferable.

I thought I would ask because not having to maintain our own version of the package has certain benefits :) What do you think?

Thank you very much for your work once again. -Istem

[chuhousen]

Hi Istem -- Thanks for reaching out. The prompt is meant to mimic the download through UI on the Ameriflux website (https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/data/download-data/), i.e., having users glance and acknowledge data use policy. But I think we should certainly look into options for a non-interactive environment. Do you have any suggestions? @khufkens Any suggestion? Thanks -- Housen

[khufkens]

You can just make this a parameter, if people use the parameter this implicitly implies they agree.

[chuhousen]

Thanks for the input. I update the download functions to use agree_policy as a parameter and avoid the interactive prompt.

[istfer]

Thank you both very much for your quick response and modification, much appreciated.