Opening Data Via FTP
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Brett A Magill wrote:
I am trying to read a table in via ftp, something like this:
read.table("ftp://ftp.the.file.com/the/directory/file.txt")
The trouble with that is, our ftp server is picky and wants my username
and password. Oh, bother. My question: Is there a way to send user/pass and read the file into R? Yes. It's pretty standard ftp://user:pass at ftp.the.file.com/the/directory/file.txt and that works in R (or used to). I suggest use --internet2 and however you would do this in Internet Explorer.
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