Thanks Steven! It is excellent code indeed! On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
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