This function is based on the Bioconductor guidelines for querying data from
the web at http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/web-query/. It
will run download a set of N.TRIES times before
giving up. We implemented this function to reduce the number of Bioconductor
build errors due to the occassional errors from our data hosting server.
download_retry(url, destfile = basename(url), mode = "wb", N.TRIES = 3L, ...)The URL to download. Passed to download.
The destination file. Defaults to the base name of the URL. Passed to download.
Mode for writing the file. The default wb is used for
binary files. This value is passed to download which
passes it to download.file.
The number of download attempts before giving up; default: 3. Should be an integer of length one with a value greater than 0.
Additional arguments passed to download.
An invisible integer code as specified in download.file.
## Download the first files_info.tsv file (version 1)
download_retry(
recount_url$url[which(recount_url$file_name == "files_info.tsv")[1]]
)