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flobrr
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Reputation: 307

Import File from FTP to R

Want to download a csv-file from FTP-Server to R (it would be best to have the file as a dataframe in R).

Get an error-message when trying to download a csv-file from FTP-Server to R (which is local in my Mac).

url = "ftp://ftppath/www_logs/testfolder/"

download.file(URL,"test.csv", credentials = "xxx:yyyy")

Last query leads to:

Error in download.file(URL, "test.csv", credentials = "xxxyyy",  : 
unused arguments (credentials = "xxx:yyyy")

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8099

Answers (1)

Franziska W.
Franziska W.

Reputation: 356

I think you get this error message because function download.file() has no argument named credentials.

I would try to pass the credentials as discussed here:

url = "ftp://username:password@ftppath/www_logs/testfolder/test.csv"
download.file(url, destfile = "test.csv")

If you want to load the file into an R data.frame, you could try something like this:

library(RCurl) 
url <- "ftp://ftppath/www_logs/testfolder/test.csv"
text_data <- getURL(url, userpwd = "username:password", connecttimeout = 60)
df <- read.csv(text = text_data)

Upvotes: 7

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