R does provide support for basic FTP requests. Not for DELETE requests. And not for communication on the same connection.
I think your best approach is to use the RCurl package (http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl). D. Orvalho Augusto wrote: > Dears I need to make some very basic FTP operations with R. > > I need to do a lot of "get" and issue a respective "delete" command > too on the same connection. > > How can I do that? > > Thanks in advance > > Caveman > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.