[R] How to read zip file?

Benilton Carvalho bcarvalh at jhsph.edu
Wed Sep 23 18:50:05 CEST 2009


and note that if, instead of zip files, you were using gzip files, you  
could:

conn <- gzfile("file.gz", "rt")
theData <- read.table(conn)
close(conn)

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On Sep 22, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Linux is a type of UNIX so follow the instructions I gave for UNIX.
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No. My machine is a linux machine.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you have the 7z zip utility and are on Windows
>>> (or use 7z and grep on UNIX):
>>>
>>> DF <- read.csv(pipe("7z x myfile.zip -so | findstr $"))
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Suppose that I have a csv file that is compressed with zip, is  
>>>> there a
>>>> way to read it in R without first decompressing it to a file.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Peng
>>>>
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