Re: [R] difficulties with read.table applied to files from URL

2010-08-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 5, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Archana Dayalu wrote: Hello, I am using read.table to read files directly from a public ftp site. I have a general list of files that may or may not exist in the ftp directory, but my hope was that R would rea

Re: [R] difficulties with read.table applied to files from URL

2010-08-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Archana Dayalu wrote: Hello, I am using read.table to read files directly from a public ftp site. I have a general list of files that may or may not exist in the ftp directory, but my hope was that R would read the file if it existed and ignored it if it didn't

[R] difficulties with read.table applied to files from URL

2010-08-05 Thread Archana Dayalu
Hello, I am using read.table to read files directly from a public ftp site. I have a general list of files that may or may not exist in the ftp directory, but my hope was that R would read the file if it existed and ignored it if it didn't exist and move on to the next one. However, when R arrives