R-helpers: I'm trying to retrieve the contents of a directory from an ftp site (ideally, the file/folder names as a character vector): "ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD12C1.005/" # (MODIS data)
Where I get the following error via RCurl: require("RCurl") url <- "ftp://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD12C1.005/" filenames = getURL(url,ftp.use.epsv=FALSE,ftplistonly=TRUE) > Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : RETR response: 550 Through some sleuthing, it turns out the ftp site does not support NLST (which RCurl is using), but will use "ls" to list the directory contents -- is there any way to use "ls" remotely on this site? Thanks! --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Assistant Professor Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: 217-300-1924 http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 [[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.