Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0208272033340.26594-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-08-27T19:38:21Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Opening Data Via FTP
In-Reply-To: <20458245FA51654B8BDE6B4EFF7B519401061719@EXCHANGE1.slps.SLPSROOT.ORG>
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.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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