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list ftp site files using {curl} (not {RCurl}) in R
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| ftp_base <- "ftp://" | |
| list_files <- curl::new_handle() | |
| curl::handle_setopt(list_files, ftp_use_epsv = TRUE, dirlistonly = TRUE) | |
| con <- curl::curl(url = ftp_base, "r", handle = list_files) | |
| files <- readLines(con) | |
| close(con) |
Awesome! Glad it’s useful. That’s why I shared it so others could use it. Thanks for letting me know
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Thank you for sharing this. This will help me a lot. Just wrapped your code into a tiny function !