[R] ftp connections for uploading files

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Loridan <thomas.loridan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Many thanks for that.
> I am running R under windows and I am not sure what you mean by this curl?

http://curl.haxx.se/

> Is'nt there a way to ftp via an intrinsic R function?

That I don't know, perhaps some else does. You might want to double
check the RCurl package.

Gabor

>
> Thanks again
>
> Thomas
>
> 2009/1/8 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> Try system() with curl or a decent ftp client (I don't see that package
>> RCurl covers this, but it might despite its description only mentioning
>> HTTP).  From 'man curl'
>>
>>   curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authen-
>>   tication,  ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file trans-
>>   fer resume and more. As you will see below, the amount of features will
>>   make your head spin!
>>
>> Ftp protocols (and there are more than one) are fiendishly complicated,
>> especially if proxies are involved.
>>
>> BTW, this is yet another case where knowing your OS would have helped give a
>> more precise answer. See the posting guide.
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Thomas Loridan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I would like to upload some plots I create wth R via ftp or something
>>> similar but I don t really understand which command/syntax I should
>>> use:
>>> should I go for  make.socket + write.socket or try and create
>>> environment variables like frp_proxy_user and then ftp my files? how?
>>>
>>> many thanks for your help
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
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>
>
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