R: Extract or List Zip Archives

unzip {utils}

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Extract or List Zip Archives

Description

Extract files from or list a zip archive.

Usage

unzip(zipfile, files = NULL, list = FALSE, overwrite = TRUE,
      junkpaths = FALSE, exdir = ".", unzip = "internal",
      setTimes = FALSE)

Arguments

`zipfile`	The pathname of the zip file: tilde expansion (see `path.expand`) will be performed.
`files`	A character vector of recorded filepaths to be extracted: the default is to extract all files.
`list`	If `TRUE`, list the files and extract none. The equivalent of `unzip -l`.
`overwrite`	If `TRUE`, overwrite existing files (the equivalent of `unzip -o`), otherwise ignore such files (the equivalent of `unzip -n`).
`junkpaths`	If `TRUE`, use only the basename of the stored filepath when extracting. The equivalent of `unzip -j`.
`exdir`	The directory to extract files to (the equivalent of `unzip -d`). It will be created if necessary.
`unzip`	The method to be used. An alternative is to use `getOption("unzip")`, which on a Unix-alike may be set to the path to a `unzip` program.
`setTimes`	logical. For the internal method only, should the file times be set based on the times in the zip file? (NB: this applies to included files, not to directories.)

Value

If list = TRUE, a data frame with columns Name (character) Length (the size of the uncompressed file, numeric) and Date (of class "POSIXct").

Otherwise for the "internal" method, a character vector of the filepaths extracted to, invisibly.

Note

The default internal method is a minimal implementation, principally designed for Windows' users to be able to unpack Windows binary packages without external software. It does not (for example) support Unicode filenames as introduced in zip 3.0: for that use unzip = "unzip" with unzip 6.00 or later. It does have some support for bzip2 compression and > 2GB zip files (but not >= 4GB files pre-compression contained in a zip file: like many builds of unzip it may truncate these, in R's case with a warning if possible).

If unzip specifies a program, the format of the dates listed with list = TRUE is unknown (on Windows it can even depend on the current locale) and the return values could be NA or expressed in the wrong time zone or misinterpreted (the latter being far less likely as from unzip 6.00).

File times in zip files are stored in the style of MS-DOS, as local times to an accuracy of 2 seconds. This is not very useful when transferring zip files between machines (even across continents), so we chose not to restore them by default.

Source

The internal C code uses zlib and is in particular based on the contributed ‘⁠minizip⁠’ application in the zlib sources (from https://zlib.net/) by Gilles Vollant.