download.file

Simple function to use ncftpget for FTP downloads behind a firewall. Requires ncftpget and a properly formatted config file in the users home directory

download.file(url, filename, method)

Arguments

url

complete URL for file download
filename

destination file name
method

Method of file retrieval. Can set this using the options(download.ftp.method=[method]) in your Rprofile. example options(download.ftp.method="ncftpget")

Examples

# NOT RUN {
download.file("http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/csb/ch11b.txt","~/test.download.txt")

# }# NOT RUN {
download.file("
  ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR/monolevel/pres.sfc.2000.nc",
  "~/pres.sfc.2000.nc")
# }# NOT RUN {
# }