title: Error when uploading package to CRAN incoming: 550 access denied
body: <p>I'm trying to upload a package on CRAN for its first release, but I can't get past the FTP upload.</p>
  
  <p>It seems I do not have write access to <a href="ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming" rel="nofollow">ftp://cran.r-project.org/incoming</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>550 Access is denied.
  Could not download /home/roudierp/Documents/CODE/lhs/fresh_meat/clhs_0.4-2.tar.gz from local filesystem
  There were 1 files or directories that could not be transferred. Check the log for which items were not properly transferred.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried with two file browsers (Dolphin and Konqueror), two GUI-based FTP clients (FireFTP and GFTP) and with good ol' <code>ftp</code> command line interface, with no success.</p>
  
  <p>I used <code>anonymous</code> as the user name, and my email address or nothing at all as passwords.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried to use <code>curl</code> and explicitly disable EPSV as per <a href="https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-August/038753.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl --disable-epsv -T clhs_0.4-2.tar.gz ftp://cran.R-project.org/incoming/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I still get an access denial error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl: (25) Failed FTP upload: 550
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea what I'm doing wrong?</p>