On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Nicolas Delhomme <delhomme@embl.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about using the Rcompression library for a package I'm
> writing and it is only available from the http://www.omegahat.org/Rrepository. I was wondering if this repo was used by the Bioc build system.
> If not, I'd welcome pointers to libraries with similar capabilities, e.g.
> I'm retrieving compressed fasta files with Rcurl and would like to
> uncompress them in R.
>
>
I think you can just use gzcon() for decompressing data, as long as you can
get it into a connection, like via rawConnection(). gzcon supports gz, bz2
and xz, which sounds like more than Rcompression.

Also, I'm wondering if RCurl is really necessary? Might gzcon(url(x)) fit
your use case?




> Thanks!
>
> Nico
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