one way to solve your problem is to fetch the directory using rcurl. then mapply using the dirlist as a parameter passed to download file On Apr 13, 2012 9:24 AM, "MacQueen, Don" <macque...@llnl.gov> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- > Don MacQueen > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > 7000 East Ave., L-627 > Livermore, CA 94550 > 925-423-1062 > > > > > > On 4/12/12 2:07 PM, "jt...@mappi.helsinki.fi" <jt...@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 > > > >______________________________________________ > >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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
