? download.file On Jul/24/10 10:47 AM, Yuan Jian wrote: > Hi, > > there is a function to show contents of an URL: browseURL > does anyone know how to save contents of an URL to a file? > > thanks > > jian > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Wolfgang Huber EMBL http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber

You can also do: library(RCurl) data = getBinaryURL("ftp://ftp.genome.jp/pub/kegg/pathway/map/map00020.png") pathway = file("map00020.png","wb") writeBin(data,pathway) close(pathway) Kachelo 2010/8/3 Wolfgang Huber <whuber@embl.de> > ? download.file > > > On Jul/24/10 10:47 AM, Yuan Jian wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> there is a function to show contents of an URL: browseURL >> does anyone know how to save contents of an URL to a file? >> >> thanks >> >> jian >> >> >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor >> > > -- > > > Wolfgang Huber > EMBL > http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]