R help - Apr 2012 - Listing the contents of an FTP directory via R?

R-helpers:

I'd like to be able to store all the file information from an ftp site
(e.g. file and foldernames) through an R command.  Any ideas how to do
this?  Here's an example site to use:

ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005

--j

-- 
Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 415-763-5476
AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn307 at hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007
http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/JonathanGreenberg.html

A couple of ways.

using Rcurl   you can use the  curlOption of dirlistonly.

otherwise you can read the page and parse.  I've got some code around here
to do that.

Steve

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Greenberg
<jgrn@illinois.edu>wrote:
> R-helpers:
>
> I'd like to be able to store all the file information from an ftp site
> (e.g. file and foldernames) through an R command.  Any ideas how to do
> this?  Here's an example site to use:
>
> ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD15A3.005
>
> --j
>
> --
> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150
> Urbana, IL 61801
> Phone: 415-763-5476
> AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn307@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007
> http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/JonathanGreenberg.html
>
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