Progress bar without verbose

[rkrug]

Hi

it would be great to have in oa_fetch() and oa_request() an additional argument named progress which would indicate if a progress bar is shown. It could be a character vector, which would make it future proof to include other progress indictor options.

[trangdata]

So I know we had a similar discussion in #127, but could you elaborate on why you wouldn't want verbose = TRUE? To shorten the printed query URL, you can set the environment variable openalexR.print to the number of characters to print: Sys.setenv(openalexR.print = 70). Echoing @yjunechoe's previous comment that we want to be mindful of balancing convenience for the maintainer vs. the user.

[rkrug]

OK - that would work. But in my understanding, verbose implies diagnostic output, while progress implies convenience / information output. So these are two different things for me. But I see your point.

[trangdata]

Ah I see. In my head, verbose has a more general meaning, essentially just message outputs of a function to the user.

FWIW I'm noting a few helpful discussions re different levels of "verbosity" here:

• https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/02/06/verbosity-control-packages/
• https://github.com/tidyverse/design/issues/42
• https://github.com/ropensci/dev_guide/issues/603

I think the behavior of openalexR's current verbose implementation is fine, but I welcome a new issue tagged for enhancements with clear discussion of how to implement different levels of verbosity and why that is helpful.