downloadFile: Downloads a file and checks the size
In jtilly/cbpR: Working with Census County Business Patterns Data

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/download.R

This function downloads the specified file and verifies its size. Since the Census servers don't always work without error, the function tries downloading each file ten times before it gives up.

1	downloadFile(url, filename, size)

`url`	contains the url of the file to be downloaded
`filename`	to be used locally
`size`	of the file in bytes

true if the function concludes without error

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downloadFile(url = "ftp://ftp.census.gov/Econ2001_And_Earlier/CBP_CSV/cbp00co.zip",
             filename = "cbp00co.zip",
             size = 16024897)