[R] Using read.table for importing gz file

[David Winsemius]

Have you tried using readLines in the manner illustrated on the ?gzfile 
help page?


David.

On 8/10/19 12:29 PM, Spencer Brackett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to read the following Xena dataset into R for data analysis:
> https://tcga.xenahubs.net/download/TCGA.GBMLGG.sampleMap/HumanMethylation450.gz
>
> I tried to run the following read.table(gzfile("HumanMethylation450.gz")),
> but R ended up crashing as a result.
>
> Is there perhaps a way to use read.table with fread in some way to do this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Spencer
>
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