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Use httr2 to fetch a file with retries

Source: R/retry_download.R
dot-retry_download.Rd

Retries to download the requested resource before stopping. Uses httr2 to cache in-session results in the tempdir().

Usage

.retry_download(url, dest, .max_tries = 3L)

Arguments

url

Character The URL being requested.

dest

Character A filepath to be written to local storage.

.max_tries

Integer The number of times to retry a failed download before emitting an error message.

Value

An invisible file path character string. Called for its side-effects, writes an object to the specified directory for reading into the active R session later.

Examples


f <- fs::path_temp("fdp-beta-national-historical.csv")
.retry_download(
  url = "https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fdp-beta-national-historical.csv",
  dest = f
)
#> Error in .retry_download(url = "https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/fdp-beta-national-historical.csv",     dest = f): could not find function ".retry_download"