I want to download and unzip many files from the FTP and create variables for year, month, and day for each file based on the naming mechanism. I am stack with the following lines and any help will be appreciated.
 
library(RCurl)
# Download the files for 1985. 
url = "ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/fews/AFR_CLIM/ARC2/DATA/1985/" 
filenames = getURL(url, ftp://ftp.use.epsv/ = FALSE, dirlistonly = TRUE) 
crlf = TRUE


Peter Maclean
Department of Economics
UDSM
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