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I am trying to download a bunch of files from a server, for which I am using download.file( ) within a for loop. The script is working fine except until download.file hits a URL which has no file, at which point it exits. I want to change this behavior to simple log the failure and maintain state within the for loop and iterate to next. I read about try / tryCatch but am having trouble

Hi again, I was trying to download stock market data from below link : https://www.nseindia.com/products/content/equities/equities/archieve_eq.htm Input choice : Select Report: Bhavcopy Date(DD-MM-YYYY): 03-03-2010 If you put manual input as above, then we will get option for manual download of file : cm03MAR2010bhav.csv.zip However I then tried to use R to have some automatic download :

Gabor, Thanks much. Your solution is elegant. My overall scheme is to take present date, and check whether it is a weekend, if not, then create a string based on the date, to concatenate into a url link for download.file( ). The files I need to download have a part which is in the format: mmddyy. I am working to make myself a system to connect to exchanges, and download end of day files from