ftp_listDir: List files and/or directories within an ftp endpoint

In slin30/wzMisc: Miscellaneous functions by WZ

List files and/or directories within an ftp endpoint

Description

For a specific ftp endpoint, list all top-level files and/or directories

Usage

ftp_listDir(arglist, include_fileInfo = TRUE, ncharlim = 3L)

Arguments

arglist	(reqiured) A list of parameters to pass to getURL, containing at minimum url.
include_fileInfo	(optional) Try to get file information, if files are found? Defaults to TRUE
ncharlim	(optional) Number of terminal characters after a dot, beyond which a character vector is no longer considered a file. Defaults to 3L.

Value

A list of length 3, the first two elements each a list of directories and files, respectively. If no valid values exist for either top-level return element, then NULL. The last element contains the root (host) url.

If present, files will have the parent directory appended as a name. Files that exist at the root level will be named with the input url.

See Also

Other ftp_functions: ftp_getBinPars(), ftp_makeParams(), ftp_parseMeta()

Examples

## Not run: 
library(RCurl)
my_arglist <- ftp_makeParams(host = "ftp.123.com", user = "myself", pwd = "my_pwd")
ftp_listDir(my_arglist)

## End(Not run)

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