[R] decompress tar.gz and zip files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh wrote:

> Can anyone point me in the right direction for decompressing text files that 
> are compressed as tar.gz or zip files?

?unztar
?unz
?unzip

Note that neither .tar.gz nor .zip formats are restricted to a single 
file and more usually hold a collection of files.

(If you don't see these, your R needs updating.)

>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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