how do you connect to a remote server with ssh in R

Question

Is it possible to connect to remote ssh server with username and password and read a file? I've done some research and did not come accross with any information about this. I'd appreciate any insight.

Answer 1

There is direct support for ssh/scp in RCurl:

x = scp("remote.ssh.host.com", "/home/dir/file.txt", "My.SCP.Passphrase", user="username")