If you take a thorough look at the help page for download.file, and follow
its advice, you may find a solution.
Hint:
The help page for download.file says,
-- quote --
The function 'download.file' can be used to download a single file
as described by 'url' from the internet and store it in
'destfile'.
-- end quote --
I'd say that makes it pretty clear the answer is no.
Further on in the help page in the "See Also" section it refers to
another
package.
Hint:
A help page for one of the functions in that packages says,
-- quote --
# FTP
# Download the files within a directory.
-- end quote --
which looks promising.
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Don MacQueen
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On 4/12/12 2:07 PM, "jtang at mappi.helsinki.fi" <jtang at
mappi.helsinki.fi>
wrote:
>Hi,
>Do you know whether it is possible to use wildcards in download.file()?
>For example:
>url = "ftp://abc.com/*.*" # to download all the files in the ftp
folder
>download.file(url,destfile=...) # does not work, any solutions?
>
>Thanks!
>
>JIng
>
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