Re: [R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

Is it possible to download data from password-protected ftp sites? I saw another thread with instructions for uploading files using RCurl, but I could not find information for downloading them in the RCurl documentation. Did you try the ?getURL function in RCurl? See the `Test the password

Re: [R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

Thanks for the tip. From the link you posted: | You can embed the user id and password into the URL. For example: | | http://userid:passw...@www.anywhere.com/ | ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/ I'm still having issues, though. I am trying to fetch some csv files from a storage site us

Re: [R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

There is a standard notation for passwords in urls ... see for example http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/5604 "Cliff Clive" wrote: > >Hello everyone, > >Is it possible to download data from password-protected ftp sites? I saw >another thread with instructions for uploading files using RCurl, but I

[R] Accessing files on password-protected FTP sites

Hello everyone, Is it possible to download data from password-protected ftp sites? I saw another thread with instructions for uploading files using RCurl, but I could not find information for downloading them in the RCurl documentation. I am using R 2.11 on a Windows XP 32-bit machine. Thanks