[R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

[Jeff Newmiller]

There is a standard notation for passwords in urls ... see for example http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5604

"Cliff Clive" <cliffclive at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Hello everyone,
>
>Is it possible to download data from password-protected ftp sites?  I saw
>another thread with instructions for uploading files using RCurl, but I
>could not find information for downloading them in the RCurl documentation.
>
>I am using R 2.11 on a Windows XP 32-bit machine.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Cliff
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