[R] How to unzip a .gz file

[Benno Pütz]

readLines (as well as other I/O routines) handles gzip files transparently, you should be able to simply use

	readLines('/home/file.gz’)


Benno

On 10 Feb 2015, at 22:45 , Alexandra Catena <amc5981 at gmail.com> 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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