[R] how to read/save .zip compressed files from R?

[Erik Iverson]

J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> Quoting Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> 
>> See also Omegahat package Rcompression (a copy of which for Windows is
>> on CRANextras).
> 
> 
> Thank you, I will look into that.
> 
> 
>> But I would do this via unzip, modify, zip
> 
> 
> once or even 10 times, yes. After that it gets boring :)
> I'd like to use it to batch-correct a series of .zip files that all 
> contain one single wrong file inside.

I believe Dr. Ripley was suggesting calling zip and unzip utilities 
through, say, the ?system function in R, as opposed to relying on R 
packages/functions to perform these compression tasks on their own.