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 '/'.
/Henrik
>
> thanks!
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