Download FTP Data — get_ftp

Download data from an FTP server.

get_ftp_data(ftp_address, dir_path, fnames, parse_fun, ..., verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

ftp_address	The FTP server address.
dir_path	FTP directory to search.
fnames	A vector of file names in the package to download. Supports regex.
parse_fun	A function to parse datasets. Default assumes that all files in fnames can be parsed using `readr::read_csv()`.
...	Additional arguments to pass to `parse_fun`.
verbose	If `TRUE`, display descriptive messages.

Value

a named list of dataframes.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
get_ftp_data("ftp://ftp.dfg.ca.gov", "IEP_Zooplankton", "MysidMatrix",
  parse_remote_excel, sheet = "Mysid CPUE Matrix 1972-2018 ",
  guess_max = 100000L)
}