[R] Making FTP operations with R

Duncan Temple Lang duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu
Tue Mar 9 06:36:59 CET 2010


R does provide support for basic FTP requests. Not for DELETE
requests. And not for communication on the same connection.

I think your best approach is to use the RCurl package
(http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl).

  D.

Orvalho Augusto wrote:
> Dears I need to make some very basic FTP operations with R.
> 
> I need to do a lot of "get" and issue a respective "delete" command
> too on the same connection.
> 
> How can I do that?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Caveman
> 
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