R help - Aug 2002 - Opening Data Via FTP

Hello all,

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?

I am using R 1.5.1 on Windows 98.  

Thanks,


Brett A. Magill, Evaluator
Research, Assessment, and Evaluation
Saint Louis Public Schools
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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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