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Downloads files from FTP server

Source: R/utils.R
gwget.Rd

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

Value

An array of file names that have been downloaded.

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'.

See also

gtrack.import_set

Examples

gdb.init_examples()
# \donttest{
outdir <- tempdir()
gwget("ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/chromosomes/md5sum.txt", path = outdir)
#> Downloading ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/chromosomes/md5sum.txt
# }