[Rd] Decompressing raw vectors in memory

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 02/05/2012 14:24, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to decompress a gzip'd raw vector in memory:
>
> content<- readBin("http://httpbin.org/gzip", "raw", 1000)
>
> memDecompress(content, type = "gzip")
> # Error in memDecompress(content, type = "gzip") :
> #  internal error -3 in memDecompress(2)
>
> I'm reasonably certain that the file is correctly compressed, because
> if I save it out to a file, I can read the uncompressed data:
>
> tmp<- tempfile()
> writeBin(content, tmp)
> readLines(tmp)
>
> So that suggests I'm using memDecompress incorrectly.  Any hints?

Headers.

> Thanks!
>
> Hadley
>


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