download.file()
/geodat *is* an absoute path! The second argument of download.file is called 'destfile', so what makes you think it is a desination *directory*? Your command works for me, using an account that has write permission in / , and not otherwise. (It seems very unsafe that you would be using such an account unless this is a pre-Vista Windows machine.)
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Paul Evans 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
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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?
Not reading the help page?
thanks!
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