n_times_try: Call TryCatch n times with given sleep times.

In MarcellGranat/granatlib: Marcell's Personal R Package

Call TryCatch n times with given sleep times.

Description

Mainly suggested for web scraping when reaching a given domain in a short time leads to errors.

Usage

n_times_try(
  .exp,
  sleep_times = c(3, 3, 3),
  otherwise = NULL,
  print_message = FALSE
)

Arguments

.exp	Expression
otherwise	Value to return if all the tries resulted an error.
print_message	Should print the message (default FALSE).
sleep_time	Numeric vector given the seconds to wait for next try.

Examples

v <- list("a", "B", 2) # only 3rd element can be added to another numeric
i = 0
n_times_try({
i = i + 1
v[[i]] + 3
})

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