[R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

Erik Iverson eriki at ccbr.umn.edu
Tue Jul 13 17:14:05 CEST 2010


> 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.

Did you try the ?getURL function in RCurl?  See the  `Test the 
passwords` example in the examples on the help page...



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