Helper function for downloading and tracking BLS files — download_bls_files • BLSloadR

This function is used to pass multiple URLs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics into 'fread_bls()'

Usage

download_bls_files(
  urls,
  suppress_warnings = TRUE,
  user_agent = NULL,
  cache = check_bls_cache_env()
)

Arguments

urls: Named or unnamed character vector of URLs to download. If unnamed, names will be auto-generated from basenames.
suppress_warnings: Logical. If TRUE, suppress individual download warnings
user_agent: An optional character string to pass to the USER_AGENT HTML header
cache: Logical. If TRUE, uses local persistent caching.

Value

Named list of bls_data objects