[Rd] Compression of largish expression array files in the DAAGbio/inst/doc directory?

[John Maindonald]

The inst/doc directory of the DAAG package has 6 files coral551.spot, ... that
are around 0.85 MB each.  It would be useful to be able to zip then, but that
as matters stand interferes with the use of the Sweave file that uses them to
demonstrate input of expression array data that is in the "spot" format.  They
do not automatically get unzipped when required.  I have checked that 
read.maimages (in limma) does not, unless I have missed something, have 
an option for reading zipped files.  Is there any way to get around this without
substantially complicating the exposition in marray-notes.pdf (also in the
inst/doc subdirectory)?

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