[R] read zips

[Sven Garbade]

Heberto Ghezzo wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have to read ASCII files with readLine. Some of these files are
> big. I receive these files in zip format, then unzip and read into R to
> process.
> Is it possible to read directly the Zip file? Help is zipped so the
> tools to unzip while reading are there, is it possible to use them from
> my package?
> Thanks

If you can use gzip (under Unix, Windows?, Mac?) you can open the file
with gzfile().

By, Sven
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