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

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, 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.
>
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>> But I would do this via unzip, modify, zip
>
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> 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.

You can script the operation, including using R as the scripting 
operation.  You cannot 'correct' a zip member: you can replace a 
member which deletes an existing member ands add a new one of the same 
name.

>
> Jose
>
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