Hi, folks!

I'm trying to pull in data using read.csv("my URL goes here"), and it really
works fantastically. Amazing to pull in live data right off the internet,
into RAM, and get busy...

however...

occasionally there is a server problem, or the data are not up  yet, and
instead of pushing through a nice CSV file, the server sends a 404 "Not
Found" page...

Since the read is inside a "FOR" loop, (pulling in and analyzing different
data each time) I've been trying to use TryCatch() to pull in the file if
it's OK, but to jump out to the next iteration of the loop otherwise (using
"next"). I don't want to exit the script, I just want to skip this iteration
and move on. This seems like it should be obvious, but I've read through the
? files and tried everything my smooth little brain can come up with... no
luck. I still end up jumping out of the entire script if I hit an error
page.

Does anyone have some example syntax that I might examine or try out?

I'm feeling pretty thick here...

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