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sfirke / packagemetrics

A Package for Helping You Choose Which Package to Use
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Some GitHub URLs are wrong #28

Closed csgillespie closed 6 years ago

csgillespie commented 7 years ago

The associated github repo of https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcppDL/index.html gives a 404. Which causes

R> scrape_github_package_page("RcppDL")
Error in open.connection(x, "rb") : HTTP error 404.

Suggestion: Use httr::GET to retrieve the page. If bad, return NA, otherwise pass the context to xml2

sfirke commented 6 years ago

hey look, you closed this yourself with #33. Thanks @csgillespie, I added you to the description of this package as a contributor.