Does anyone know how to close an FTP session with RCurl? I am trying to
automate the process of downloading snow data from a government website, and
their server is throttling the connection after a few files are downloaded. I
contacted their system administrator, who wrote: “My suspicion at this point is
that the getURL commands are opened and perform the function asked, then linger
in wait for 15 minutes until or ftp server closes the idle sessions. Is there a
way to tell R to close the sessions?”
I’ve perused the RCurl manual but I don’t see a way to close sessions. I tried
copying the following example from the RCurl manual, but it didn’t solve the
problem. I’m a novice at this and I don’t understand the relationship between
handles and sessions, so I am probably missing something.
#EXAMPLE from getCurl(), p. 39
if(url.exists("http://www.omegahat.net/RCurl/index.html";)) {
curl = getCurlHandle()
getURL("http://www.omegahat.net/RCurl/index.html";, curl = curl)
#getCurlInfo(curl) # I skipped this step
rm(curl) # release the curl! (does this end the session???)
}
Thanks!
John
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