On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Paul Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to download a file and did the following: > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > fileLink <- > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE1000/GSE1000_RAW.tar' > > > download.file(fileLink,'/geoDat') > > trying URL > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE1000/GSE1000_RAW.tar' > > ftp data connection made, file length 35307520 bytes > > opened URL > > downloaded 34480Kb > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > However, when I look in the destination directory ('/geoDat'), the file > is not there (I also tried giving it the absolute path). > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > I'm quite sure the 'destfile' argument of download.file() is a file > not a directory. Example: > > > download.file("http://www.r-project.org/index.html", destfile="foo.html") > > file.info("foo.html") > size isdir mode mtime ctime > foo.html 785 FALSE 666 2008-03-18 08:54:19 2008-03-18 08:54:11 > atime exe > foo.html 2008-03-18 08:54:19 no > > So you probably saved the downloaded file as 'geoDat' in the root > directory '/'.
Also, you want to download the file in a binary fashion, i.e. use argument mode="wb", otherwise your binary tar file will be corrupt. R-core: I'd suggest to replace the default to mode="wb" for file transfers. /Henrik > > /Henrik > > > > > > > > thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.