Issue when downloading CHIRPS with getCHIRPS command

[giacfalk]

When I try to download CHIRPS data using the getCHIRPS command, as follows,

chirps_africa<-getCHIRPS(region = "africa", format = "netcdf", tres = "daily", sres = 0.05, dsn = file.path(getwd(), "data"), overwrite = FALSE, cores = 2)

I get the following error:

Error in function (type, msg, asError = TRUE) : Server denied you to change to the given directory

What could be the cause and the potential solution?

[fdetsch]

African daily images are not available in NetCDF format, only bils and tifs (see ftp://chg-ftpout.geog.ucsb.edu/pub/org/chg/products/CHIRPS-2.0/africa_daily/). I think a look-up table with details on available image formats per region and timestep would make sense here in order to avoid confusion. I'll have a look into it...

[giacfalk]

Thank you very much for your help. However, changing the format to tifs leads to the same error.