The title says it all.
+5
A:
Your best bet may be the RCurl package. From the DESCRIPTION:
[...] Additionally, the underlying implementation is robust and extensive, supporting FTP/FTPS/TFTP (uploads and downloads),
Otherwise, rethink your problem. Maybe HTTP POST will do as well. It's not 1986 anymore so you're not required to use ftp.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2010-09-01 17:05:19
Thanks Dirk - it sounds an interesting direction to checkout
Tal Galili
2010-09-01 17:35:52
+1 for the answer and the zinger
Stedy
2010-09-01 17:52:29
+1
A:
If you can access it from the command line, then you can do:
system("ftp ...") # where ... is the argument list
You could easily wrap this in an R function if you plan on doing it often.
Shane
2010-09-01 17:19:53
Becomes a pain with authentication and all that as how those things are handled is platform-dependent. Hence my call for RCurl...
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2010-09-01 17:34:33
A:
This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I solve my sharing problems by moving the file to my Public dropbox folder and link to that in my R code.
My two pennies.
Roman Luštrik
2010-09-02 06:00:20
A:
I use Binfer to transfer from computer to computer instead of FTPing or uploading it somewhere.
Dusty
2010-09-09 03:52:41