On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Marc Mamin wrote: > Hallo, > > I want to open an ftp connection (with login and pwd), > and then to retrieve the file list and the files'content of a given > directory. > > Is this possible with R (on W2K)?
Not a file list: the internal ftp client does not support that. You can get a file by a ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/file URL. You can use download.file(method="wget") to do this: a suitable copy of wget.exe is at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
