checkInternet: Checking internet connectivity for functions with remote call

In soilassessment: Soil Health Assessment Models for Assessing Soil Conditions and Suitability

Checking internet connectivity for functions with remote call

Description

This is for testing and reporting url of remote servers for graceful fail in functions which use remote call

Usage

checkInternet(dbase_file)

Arguments

dbase_file

url address of the remote server

Details

It carries out three tests on the given url: 1- if the url fetch times out , 2- if there is no internet connection, and 3- if there is bad path name and passes a message when their is failure.

Value

a response message (Time out or error 404 or No internet connection) or data.frame of available data

Author(s)

Christian Thine Omuto

Examples

xx="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e"
checkInternet(xx)

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