[R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

[Erik Iverson]

> 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...