Hi,
On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
> I'm trying to upload a file using RCURL:s ftpUpload() to a ftp-server using
> the following command:
>
>> ftpUpload("'VERY.ODD.FILE.NAME(+1)'",to="ftp://x.x.x.x/",";'
>> VERY.ODD.FILE.NAME(+1)'",userpwd="USER:PASSWORD")
> OK
> 0
>
> The file I'm trying to upload is a very simple text-file but with a bit weird
> filename. Note the ' on each side of the filename.
>
> So the upload itself is successful but the receiver of the file tells me that
> the file I uploaded was of "Binary" type and that his system only accepts
> "ASCII". So the receiver can see the file but it contains only weird
> characters.
>
> Surfing the web I found this:
> http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/ascii-binary.shtml
>
> and indeed, when I try filezilla (http://filezilla-project.org/) to do the
> same upload, there is a setting in filezilla: "Default transfer type" that
> can be set to "ASCII" or "Binary". The transfer works fine when using "ASCII"
> and has same error as in R when using "Binary".
>
> My conclusion is that, for some reason, R uses "Binary" as "Transfer type"
> here, but it should be using "ASCII".
>
> I have been looking at curlSetOpt() but .encoding is not the problem here.
>
>
> Is there a way to change R:s "Transfer Type" from "Binary" to "ASCII" in this
> case? How?
>
What happens if you explicitly set the asText argument to ftpUpload() to TRUE?
asText is defined by default based upon the 'what' argument.
> what = "'VERY.ODD.FILE.NAME(+1)'"
> asText = inherits(what, "AsIs") || is.raw(what)
> asText
[1] FALSE
So, maybe you need to set it to TRUE explicitly. It's worth a try!
Cheers,
Ben
>
> System: windows 7
> R version: 2.15.0
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Best regards
> Magnus Eriksson
>
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