On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Loridan <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks for that. > I am running R under windows and I am not sure what you mean by this curl?
http://curl.haxx.se/ > Is'nt there a way to ftp via an intrinsic R function? That I don't know, perhaps some else does. You might want to double check the RCurl package. Gabor > > Thanks again > > Thomas > > 2009/1/8 Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]>: >> Try system() with curl or a decent ftp client (I don't see that package >> RCurl covers this, but it might despite its description only mentioning >> HTTP). From 'man curl' >> >> curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authen- >> tication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file trans- >> fer resume and more. As you will see below, the amount of features will >> make your head spin! >> >> Ftp protocols (and there are more than one) are fiendishly complicated, >> especially if proxies are involved. >> >> BTW, this is yet another case where knowing your OS would have helped give a >> more precise answer. See the posting guide. >> >> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Thomas Loridan wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I would like to upload some plots I create wth R via ftp or something >>> similar but I don t really understand which command/syntax I should >>> use: >>> should I go for make.socket + write.socket or try and create >>> environment variables like frp_proxy_user and then ftp my files? how? >>> >>> many thanks for your help >>> >>> Thomas >>> >>> -- >>> Thomas Loridan >>> King's College email: [email protected] >>> webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] 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. >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] >> Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >> > > > > -- > Thomas Loridan > King's College email: [email protected] > webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- Gabor Csardi <[email protected]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
