Hello, You have an extra "argument" to getURL that is _not_ an argument: ftp://ftp.use.epsv/ To get the list of files just do
url <- "ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/fews/AFR_CLIM/ARC2/DATA/1985/"; filenames <- getURL(url, dirlistonly = TRUE) fn <- unlist(strsplit(filenames, "\r\n")) # To download the files destdir <- "C:/Rui/Temp/" # Adapt to your system lapply(fn, function(x) download.file(paste0(url, x), paste0(destdir, x))) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-01-2013 22:41, Peter Maclean escreveu: > > I want to download and unzip many files from the FTP and create variables for > year, month, and day for each file based on the naming mechanism. I am stack > with the following lines and any help will be highly appreciated. I want to > create a spreadsheet file with lat lon and estimate as headers. > > library(RCurl) > # Download the files for 1985. > url = "ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/fews/AFR_CLIM/ARC2/DATA/1985/"; > filenames = getURL(url, ftp://ftp.use.epsv/ = FALSE, dirlistonly = TRUE) > crlf = TRUE > > > Peter Maclean > Department of Economics > UDSM > [[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. [[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.
