[R] How to unzip a .gz file

[Clint Bowman]

Alexandra,  Although you may not have control over the installation of R, 
2.15.1 is very old and should be upgraded--the current is 3.1.2

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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Alexandra Catena wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can someone help me with unzipping a .gz file.  I used:
>
> readLines(gzfile('/home/file.gz'))
>
>
> I also found that I could use gunzip, but after trying to install it, it
> says:
>
> "package ‘gunzip’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandra
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