I'm curious if there's a straightforward way to download this data file within an R session? This zipped file downloads without any issues in both firefox and chrome for me:
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2024/march/asecpub24sas.zip
I'm not sure if the security settings on https://www2.census.gov/ might have changed because although this download command has not worked for a long time..
tf <- tempfile()
this_url <- "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2024/march/asecpub24sas.zip"
download.file( this_url , tf , mode = 'wb' )
..I think that this httr command worked until recently?
library(httr)
GET( this_url , write_disk( tf ) , progress() )
The same command does work when used on https://web.archive.org
archive_url <-
"https://web.archive.org/web/https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2024/march/asecpub24sas.zip"
GET( archive_url , write_disk( tf , overwrite = TRUE ) , progress() )
You can use curl::curl_download for ftp requests, if download speed is not a big concern. This one worked for me, although it was really slow.
ftp <- "ftp://ftp2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/datasets/2024/march/asecpub24sas.zip"
curl::curl_download(ftp, basename(ftp), quiet = FALSE)