/geodat *is* an absoute path! The second argument of download.file is called 'destfile', so what makes you think it is a desination *directory*?
Your command works for me, using an account that has write permission in / , and not otherwise. (It seems very unsafe that you would be using such an account unless this is a pre-Vista Windows machine.) On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Paul Evans wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to download a file and did the following: > --------------------------------------------------------- >> fileLink <- >> 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE1000/GSE1000_RAW.tar' >> download.file(fileLink,'/geoDat') > trying URL > 'ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE1000/GSE1000_RAW.tar' > ftp data connection made, file length 35307520 bytes > opened URL > downloaded 34480Kb > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > However, when I look in the destination directory ('/geoDat'), the file > is not there (I also tried giving it the absolute path). > > What am I doing wrong? Not reading the help page? > thanks! > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > > [[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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
