[R] Uncompressing data from read.socket

[Dieter Menne]

rajeshj at cse.iitm.ac.in wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to uncompress gzipped data coming over a socket? 
> 

As far I remember a message by Brian Ripley (I could not find it, though),
it's not possible directly. You have to save as a file and read from disk;
see docs on "connection".

Dieter


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