Copy file from remote to local

Copy file/dir from remote server to local server

Usage

remote.copy.from(
  host,
  src,
  dst,
  options = NULL,
  delete = FALSE,
  stderr = FALSE
)

Arguments

host

list with server, user and optionally tunnel to use.

src

remote file/dir to copy

dst

local file/dir to copy to

options

to be passed to rsync command, if nothing is specified everything will be rsynced

delete

in case of local dir should all non-existent files be removed

stderr

should stderr be returned

Value

output of command executed

Details

Copies the file/dir from the remote server to the local server. If the dst is a folder it will copy the file into that folder.

Author

Rob Kooper

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  host <- list(name='geo.bu.edu', user='kooper', tunnel='/tmp/geo.tunnel')
  remote.copy.from(host, '/tmp/kooper', '/tmp/geo.tmp', delete=TRUE)
} # }