test_url: Download file in a graceful way

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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)

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

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

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