[R] Download and Unzip a file

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Do unz / unzip get the job done?

Michael

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:19 AM, himanshuy <himanshu.pro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to download and unzip a zip file from the following location.
>
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2011/DEC/fo08DEC2011bhav.csv.zip
>
> I initially there was issue with useragent so i ran the following code
>
> options(HTTPUserAgent="Firefox/8.0.1")
> u =
> "http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2011/DEC/fo08DEC2011bhav.csv.zip"
> o = getURLContent(u, verbose = TRUE, useragent = getOption("HTTPUserAgent"))
>
> now I want to unzip and save this file. I was initially working on matlab
> and have recently moved to R.
> any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Himanshu Y
>
>
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