Download error with Consumer Expenditure Survey

[djkpf]

I am following the exact steps here http://asdfree.com/consumer-expenditure-survey-ces.html

When I run the following code, I receive an error:

ces_cat <- lodown( "ces" , ces_cat )

This is the error.

lodown is now exiting unexpectedly. websites that host publicly-downloadable microdata change often and sometimes those changes cause this software to break. if the error call stack below appears to be a hiccup in your internet connection, then please verify your connectivity and retry the download. otherwise, please open a new issue athttps://github.com/ajdamico/asdfree/issueswith the contents of this error call stack and also the output of yoursessionInfo(). This is then followed by another error:

Error in httr_filesize(this_url, attempts, sleepsec) : httr::HEAD( https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-series/historical-poverty-thresholds/thresh17.xls ) failed after 3 attemptshttr::HEAD( https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-series/historical-poverty-thresholds/thresh17.xls ) failed after 3 attempts

I have tried to run the code with multiple internet connections.

[ajdamico]

could you submit a pull request? thanks

[djkpf]

Hey there,

I am not actually a programmer, and am not sure what to change. I just wanted to flag the issue.

Thanks, Dan

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could you submit a pull request? thanks

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[briatte]

Hi ~ It seems the issue faced by @djkpf is now gone: as of today, the thresh17.xls file reported in the error is not part of the catalog created by get_catalog_ces anymore.

I believe this issue can be closed.