gwget: Downloads files from FTP server

In misha: Toolkit for Analysis of Genomic Data

Downloads files from FTP server

Description

Downloads multiple files from FTP server

Usage

gwget(url = NULL, path = NULL)

Arguments

url	URL of FTP server
path	directory path where the downloaded files are stored

Details

This function downloads files from FTP server given by 'url'. The address in 'url' can contain wildcards to download more than one file at once. Files are downloaded to a directory given by 'path' argument. If 'path' is 'NULL', file are downloaded into 'GROOT/downloads'.

Value

An array of file names that have been downloaded.

See Also

gtrack.import_set

Examples

gdb.init_examples()

outdir <- tempdir()
gwget("ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/chromosomes/md5sum.txt", path = outdir)

misha documentation built on Sept. 14, 2023, 5:08 p.m.