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2011 Jan 06
8
Accessing data via url
# Can anyone suggest why this works
datafilename <- "http://personality-project.org/r/datasets/maps.mixx.epi.bfi.data"
person.data <- read.table(datafilename,header=TRUE)
# but this does not?
dd <- "https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/trees.txt"
treedata <- read.table(dd, header=TRUE)
2009 Feb 26
2
ftp fetch using RCurl?
Hi everyone,
I have to fetch about 300 to 500 zipped archives from a remote ftp server.
Each of the archive is about 1Mb. I know I can get it done by using
download.file() in R, but I am curious that is there a faster way to do this
using RCurl. For example, are there some parameters that I can set so that
the connection does not need to be rebuilt....etc.
A even simpler question is, how can I