[R] R as ftp client ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Marc Mamin wrote:

> Hallo,
> 
> I want to open an ftp connection (with login and pwd),
> and then to retrieve the file list and the files'content of a given
> directory.
> 
> Is this possible with R (on W2K)?

Not a file list: the internal ftp client does not support that. You can 
get a file by a ftp://user:pass@machine/path/to/file URL.

You can use download.file(method="wget") to do this: a suitable copy of 
wget.exe is at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools.

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