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Does anyone know how to close an FTP session with RCurl?? I am trying to automate the process of downloading snow data from a government website, and their server is throttling the connection after a few files are downloaded.? I...

I?ve posted this question on StackExchange at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37604466/r-system-not-working-with-modis-reprojection-tool, but haven?t received any replies. ?I?m hoping that someone who understands the operation of the R system...

Thanks Tom! I tried that and it didn?t work, but perhaps there are other problems. The system administrator wrote ?I think closing sessions immediately upon completion of the transfer, or continuing to use the same session for additional requests...

Thanks very much Roy! I will post to R-Sig-Mac. I browsed their archives but didn?t see anything about the issue ? I might have missed something, though. John On 6/4/16, 1:12 PM, "Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA...

I forgot to add that setting the environment variable in .Renviron in my home directory *also* works. I have updated my question on Stackoverflow to include these answers. John On 6/5/16, 1:17 PM, "J Payne" <jcpayne at...

Fantastic!? That did the trick.? I still suspect that there may be a command within RCurl that accomplishes the same thing, but in any case I?m very grateful to have a solution that works.? Best, John From: William Dunlap...

Thanks Berend, that?s super useful. In summary, here is what I found: The problem (if I understand correctly) is that R was not passing environment variables to OSX El Capitan successfully. In any case: These do not work: 1...