Thanks a lot Duncan Sorry to insist with my questions but I am very lost with these Rcurl commands... could you point out the few ones I need to set up an ftp connection and just upload a file ?
Greatly appreciated Thomas 2009/1/8 Duncan Temple Lang <dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu>: > > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> >> 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). > > It does support FTP, and all of the protocols that are supported in > the installed libcurl, so it depends the configuration options for libcurl > itself. > > The protocols it handles can be found via the curlVersion() function, e.g. > >> curlVersion() > $age > [1] 3 > > $version > [1] "7.16.3" > > $vesion_num > [1] 462851 > > $host > [1] "powerpc-apple-darwin9.0" > > $features > ipv6 ssl libz ntlm gssnegotiate largefile > 1 4 8 16 32 512 > > $ssl_version > [1] " OpenSSL/0.9.7l" > > $ssl_version_num > [1] 0 > > $libz_version > [1] "1.2.3" > > $protocols > [1] "tftp" "ftp" "telnet" "dict" "ldap" "http" "file" "https" > [9] "ftps" > > $ares > [1] "" > > $ares_num > [1] 0 > > $libidn > [1] "" > > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-09-27 r46576) > i386-apple-darwin9.5.0 > > locale: > C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] ROOXML_0.1-0 Rcompression_0.4-0 RGoogleDocs_0.2-0 > [4] SVGAnnotation_0.1-0 lattice_0.17-15 RCurl_0.92-0 > [7] XML_1.99-0 RTools_0.1-0 bitops_1.0-4 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] grid_2.9.0 >> > > > > >> 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: thomas.lori...@kcl.ac.uk >>> webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> > -- Thomas Loridan King's College email: thomas.lori...@kcl.ac.uk webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm ______________________________________________ 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.