Ya I hit the same error with my code that reads directories.
I'll try some other stuff . I think I hit this error before I  with usgs.


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn@illinois.edu>wrote:

> Steven:
>
> Thanks -- I seem to be running into the problem with the link I sent along:
>
> > getURL("ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005/",verbose=TRUE,dirlistonly
> = TRUE)
> Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  : RETR response: 550
>
> I'm wondering if it might be a passive ftp issue, but:
> > getURL("ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005/",verbose=TRUE,ftp.use.epsv=TRUE,
> dirlistonly = TRUE)
> Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE)  :
>  FTP response reading failed
>
> Does not seem to work...  Thoughts?
>
> --j
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:32 PM, steven mosher <moshersteven@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > A couple of ways.
> >
> > using Rcurl   you can use the  curlOption of dirlistonly.
> >
> > otherwise you can read the page and parse.  I've got some code around
> here
> > to do that.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn@illinois.edu>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> R-helpers:
> >>
> >> I'd like to be able to store all the file information from an ftp site
> >> (e.g. file and foldernames) through an R command.  Any ideas how to do
> >> this?  Here's an example site to use:
> >>
> >> ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005
> >>
> >> --j
> >>
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