Jia Shen
2015-Aug-13 20:51 UTC
[R] having error of downloading multiple files from password protected ftp in R
Hi all, I'm trying to download a bunch of files from a credential needed ftp address using R.* Below is my code:* =========================library(RCurl) url <- "ftp://xxx.com" userpwd <- "user:pwd" filenames <- getURL(url, userpwd = userpwd, ftp.use.epsv FALSE,dirlistonly = TRUE) fn <- unlist(strsplit(filenames, "\r\n")) destdir <- "C:\\xxx\\destfolder" lapply(fn, function(x) download.file(url=paste0(url,"/", x), destfile=paste0(destdir,"/", x)),method="curl") *The error message i got is below: * trying URL 'ftp://FTP.weatherbank.com/CYTZ-FULL.XLSB' Error in download.file(url = paste0(url, "/", x), destfile paste0(destdir, : cannot open URL 'ftp://xxx.com' In addition: Warning message: In download.file(url = paste0(url, "/", x), destfile = paste0(destdir, : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The login request was denied =========================== Can anyone help? have been working on this issue for a couple of hours. Thanks! Tracy [[alternative HTML version deleted]]