rciop.copy {rciop}¶

Description¶

Copies an URL to a given folder

Usage¶

rciop.copy (url, target="./", uncompress=TRUE)

Arguments¶

url

the URL of the product to download or the URL to the OpenSearch catalogue entry in RDF format

target

the destination folder for the downloaed product

uncompress

if the product is an archive (.tgz, .gz) it is extracted by default

Details¶

This function stages-in remote files to local folders

Value¶

List with:

• exit.code: 0 if succesful, >0 if unsuccessful
• output: local path of the downloaded product

Examples¶

input <- "http://landsat.usgs.gov/documents/L7_60m20090422.tgz"
res <- rciop.copy(input, TMPDIR, uncompress=TRUE)
if (res$exit.code==0) local.url <- res$output

local.prms <- apply(as.data.frame(prm), 1, function(url) { rciop.copy(url, TMPDIR)$output })
tmp.df <- read.table(textConnection(local.prms))

Author¶

Terradue