Thanks Henrik. Also, is there a method/package (in R) with which I can unpack a tar file programatically?
thanks again! ----- Original Message ---- From: Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Paul Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:38:14 PM Subject: Re: [R] download.file() On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /geodat *is* an absoute path! > > The second argument of download.file is called 'destfile', so what makes > you think it is a desination *directory*? The help file might be the source of confusion: "destfile: A character string with the name where the downloaded file is saved. Tilde-expansion is performed." ....especially the word "where". Better with "A character string specifying the name [pathname?] of the saved file" is better. /Henrik > > 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. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? [[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.
