[R] diagnosing download.file() problems

2010-09-21 Thread steven mosher
I'm accessing around 95 tar files on an FTP server ranging in size between 10 and 40MB a piece. while certainly can click on them and download them outside of R, I'd like to have my script do it. Retrieving the ftp directory with RCurl works fine (about 90% of the time) but downloading the

Re: [R] diagnosing download.file() problems

2010-09-21 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, steven mosher mosherste...@gmail.com wrote: I'm accessing around 95 tar files on an FTP server ranging in size between 10 and 40MB a piece. while certainly can click on them and download them outside of R, I'd like to have my script do it. Retrieving the ftp

Re: [R] diagnosing download.file() problems

2010-09-21 Thread steven mosher
That is what I feared. I know other people on slow connections have done this without issue ( at least they didnt report an issue ) I had a similar issue with geonames.org who at least published their terms of service (requests per second or sumptin like that.. so could program around it) I'll