[R] get compressed data via a socket connection

[Jeffrey Horner]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> ?gzcon may help, depending exactly what you mean by `zlib-compressed 
> data'. If not, its code will provide you with a prototype to work on. 
> There are also private entry points in connections.c to (de)compress 
> blocks of data to/from a raw vector which again may be a useful statring 
> point for ideas.
> 
> There is no public API to the connections code.

You might want to look at the proposed R Connections API here:

http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api


Cheers,

Jeff
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