wget worked for me.
Thanks Willian and Rainer.
-M


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:18 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap@tibco.com> wrote:

> Wrap the call that may abort with try() or tryCatch().
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Rainer
> > Schuermann
> > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 1:09 PM
> > To: r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] download files using ftp: avoid error
> >
> > I haven't tested it thoroughly but what worked here is replacing
> > > download.file(url, destfile, quiet = FALSE)
> > with
> >
> > sys_call <- paste( "wget", url, ">", destfile, sep=" " )
> > system( sys_call )
> >
> > Program execution continues, whether or not the download from url was
> > successful. However, wget is, I believe, not available on Windows.
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Rainer
> >
> >
> > On Friday 16 September 2011 15:07:15 Mary Kindall wrote:
> > > I am planning to download a large number of files from some website. I
> am
> > > using the following script.
> > >
> > > files2down = c('aaa', 'bbb', ................)
> > > for (i in 1: len)
> > > {
> > > print(paste('downloading file', i, ' of total ', len));
> > > url = paste(urlPrefix, files2down[i], sep='')
> > > destfile = paste (dest, 'inDir', files2down[i], sep='/' )
> > > download.file(url, destfile, quiet = FALSE)
> > > }
> > >
> > > It works fine as long as the file is present. When the file is not
> present,
> > > it exit from loop. Is there a way to continue looping if error occurs.
> > > Thanks
> >
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