Get remote URL directory listing

Usage

getURLDirList(url, pattern = NULL)

Arguments

url: character(1). Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
pattern: character(1). Pattern to use for matching.

Value

character. Simple directory contents return, including both files and subdirectories.

Note

Best served using FTP instead of HTTP.

Updated 2022-05-04.

Examples

url <- "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/"
if (goalie::hasInternet(url)) {
    x <- getURLDirList(url)
    tail(x)
}
#> [1] "all"              "archive"          "check.txt"        "genbank"         
#> [5] "refseq"           "species.diff.txt"