Is reprex SPYWARE?

John_Rambo · April 20, 2022, 2:41am

I tried reprex::reprex(si = TRUE)

The first what it does, it tries to transfer images accross the whole internet. Is this the intended behavior for reprex-beginners?...

Could not fetch https://i.imgur.com/1OhesHg.png
HttpExceptionRequest Request {
host = "i.imgur.com"
port = 443
secure = True
requestHeaders =
path = "/1OhesHg.png"
queryString = ""
method = "GET"
proxy = Nothing
rawBody = False
redirectCount = 10
responseTimeout = ResponseTimeoutDefault
requestVersion = HTTP/1.1
}
(InternalException (HostCannotConnect "i.imgur.com" [Network.Socket.connect: <socket: 476>: failed (Permission denied (WSAEACCESS))]))
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 61

And later: Error in ensure_not_dogfood():
! Aborting.

... I'm afraid this package is a joke.

williaml · April 20, 2022, 3:25am

Have a look at the source code for yourself:

github.com

tidyverse/reprex/blob/main/R/reprex.R

#' Render a reprex
#'
#' @description
#' Run a bit of R code using [rmarkdown::render()] and write the rendered result
#' to user's clipboard. If the clipboard is unavailable, the file containing
#' the rendered result is opened for manual copy. The goal is to make it easy to
#' share a small reproducible example ("reprex"), e.g., in a GitHub issue.
#' Reprex source can be
#'
#' * read from clipboard
#' * provided directly as expression, character vector, or string
#' * read from file
#' * read from current selection or active document in RStudio
#'
#' reprex can also be used for syntax highlighting (with or without rendering);
#' see below for more.
#'
#' @section Details:
#' The usual "code + commented output" is returned invisibly, written to file,
#' and, whenever possible, put on the clipboard. An HTML preview displays in

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John_Rambo · April 20, 2022, 7:19am

So why is it requesting https://i.imgur.com/1OhesHg.png ?
And how to disable this behavior?

nirgrahamuk · April 20, 2022, 11:00am

Make upload.fun configurable via option · Issue #214 · tidyverse/reprex (github.com)

system · May 11, 2022, 11:01am

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