I would use RCurl. if you have, for example, the url of an ftp site you can merely do a getURL() and the contents will be returned. That call will return data that can be coerced into a data.frame that will look like a directory structure listing the file names.
If you need code just ask, but the RCurl docs are pretty good. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Baoqiang Cao <bqcaom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to download some data files from a remote server, the problem > here is that some of the files actually don't exist, which I don't > know before try. Just wondering if a function in R could tell me if a > file exists on a remote server? I searched this mailing list and after > read severals mails, still clueless. Any help will be highly > appreciated. > > B.C. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
