[R] FTP-Access from R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You haven't told us the R platform. But R's ftp is taken from libxml on
most systems, and it's not a complete implementation.

I suggest you use download.file with method = "wget".

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Joerg Maeder wrote:

> I want to access a file on a ftp-server with R. But it doesn't work. I
> suppose the reason is the username and password. Here the non working
> file path
>
> ftp://woudc:woudc*@ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Archive-NewFormat/totalozone_1.0_1/stn035/dobson/1929/19290301.dobson.beck.002.smi.csv
>
> I tested other files on this server, same result: a crash of R. I tested
> it with other 'normal' sites (on other servers): that works
>
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