Get remote URL directory listing

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 2021-02-02.

Examples

url <- "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/"
if (
    !isTRUE(nzchar(Sys.getenv("CI"))) &&
    goalie::hasInternet(url)
) {
    x <- getURLDirList(url)
    tail(x)
}
#> [1] "README_GFF3.txt" "README.txt"      "refseq"          "TARGET"         
#> [5] "TOOLS"           "Viruses"