[R] ftp connections for uploading files

[Thomas Loridan]

Thanks a lot Duncan

Sorry to insist with my questions but I am very lost with these Rcurl
commands...
could you point out the few ones I need to set up an ftp connection
and just upload a file ?

Greatly appreciated

Thomas

2009/1/8 Duncan Temple Lang <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu>:
>
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
> It does support FTP, and all of the protocols that are supported in
> the installed libcurl, so it depends the configuration options for libcurl
> itself.
>
> The protocols it handles can be found via the curlVersion() function, e.g.
>
>> curlVersion()
> $age
> [1] 3
>
> $version
> [1] "7.16.3"
>
> $vesion_num
> [1] 462851
>
> $host
> [1] "powerpc-apple-darwin9.0"
>
> $features
>        ipv6          ssl         libz         ntlm gssnegotiate largefile
>           1            4            8           16           32   512
>
> $ssl_version
> [1] " OpenSSL/0.9.7l"
>
> $ssl_version_num
> [1] 0
>
> $libz_version
> [1] "1.2.3"
>
> $protocols
> [1] "tftp"   "ftp"    "telnet" "dict"   "ldap"   "http"   "file"   "https"
> [9] "ftps"
>
> $ares
> [1] ""
>
> $ares_num
> [1] 0
>
> $libidn
> [1] ""
>
>
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-09-27 r46576)
> i386-apple-darwin9.5.0
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] ROOXML_0.1-0        Rcompression_0.4-0  RGoogleDocs_0.2-0
> [4] SVGAnnotation_0.1-0 lattice_0.17-15     RCurl_0.92-0
> [7] XML_1.99-0          RTools_0.1-0        bitops_1.0-4
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.9.0
>>
>
>
>
>
>>  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
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thomas Loridan
>>> King's College email: thomas.loridan at kcl.ac.uk
>>> webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm
>>>
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>>
>



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Thomas Loridan
King's College email: thomas.loridan at kcl.ac.uk
webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm