Many thanks for that. I am running R under windows and I am not sure what you mean by this curl? Is'nt there a way to ftp via an intrinsic R function?
Thanks again Thomas 2009/1/8 Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>: > Try system() with curl or a decent ftp client (I don't see that package > RCurl covers this, but it might despite its description only mentioning > HTTP). From 'man curl' > > curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authen- > tication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file trans- > fer resume and more. As you will see below, the amount of features will > make your head spin! > > Ftp protocols (and there are more than one) are fiendishly complicated, > especially if proxies are involved. > > BTW, this is yet another case where knowing your OS would have helped give a > more precise answer. See the posting guide. > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Thomas Loridan wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to upload some plots I create wth R via ftp or something >> similar but I don t really understand which command/syntax I should >> use: >> should I go for make.socket + write.socket or try and create >> environment variables like frp_proxy_user and then ftp my files? how? >> >> many thanks for your help >> >> Thomas >> >> -- >> Thomas Loridan >> King's College email: thomas.lori...@kcl.ac.uk >> webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > 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 > -- Thomas Loridan King's College email: thomas.lori...@kcl.ac.uk webpage:http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/tloridan/index.htm ______________________________________________ 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.
