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rlinuxsshcopyscp

How to do scp in R?

I was wondering whether scp like:

scp localmachine/path_to_the_file username@server_ip:/path_to_remote_directory

is possible using R code? In other words, for copy a file in local machine in R, one could use file.copy, what are the R possibilities to copy file from local machine to a remote machine?

Solution

  • there is package ssh.utils which wraps ssh commands in R functions.

    So your example would become:

    library(ssh.utils)
cp.remote(remote.src = "", 
          remote.dest = "username@server_ip", 
          path.src = "localmachine/path_to_the_file",
          path.dest = "path_to_remote_directory")

    EDIT: I could install it but anyway it's not very flexible as it does not accept options...

    With a system command this would be just:

    system("scp localmachine/path_to_the_file username@server_ip:/path_to_remote_directory")