[R] ftp fetch using RCurl?

Hi everyone, I have to fetch about 300 to 500 zipped archives from a remote ftp server. Each of the archive is about 1Mb. I know I can get it done by using download.file() in R, but I am curious that is there a faster way to do this using RCurl. For example, are there some parameters that I can s

[R] When download.file fails...

Hi everyone, In the situation that the remote file does not exist, download.file fails, yet it still creates a file as provided for "destfile" argument. I tried to delete this bad file but got the message that it is still being used by "other programs", which I assume is R. Does anyone know ho

Re: [R] ftp fetch using RCurl?

I am using RCurl, version 0.9-4, under windows. I can not find the function getURLContent(). Is it being renamed ? or is it in a different version? Also, in the reference manual on CRAN R under package RCurl, I found a function getBinaryURL() documented but can not be found in the package as well