[R] Need help to unzip files in Windows

Anas Jamshed @n@@j@m@hed1994 @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Mon Aug 23 21:20:45 CEST 2021


I am trying this URL: "
https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/GSE162nnn/GSE162562/suppl/GSE162562_RAW.tar
"

but it is not giving me any file

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:42 PM Andrew Simmons <akwsimmo using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I don't think you need to use a system command directly, I think
> 'utils::untar' is all you need. I tried the same thing myself, something
> like:
>
>
> URL <- "https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.30.tar.gz"
> FILE <- file.path(tempdir(), basename(URL))
>
>
> utils::download.file(URL, FILE)
> utils::untar(FILE, exdir = dirname(FILE))
>
>
> and it makes a folder "Image-ExifTool-12.30". It seems to work perfectly
> fine in Windows 10 x64 build 19042. Can you send the specific file (or
> provide a URL to the specific file) that isn't working for you?
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:53 PM Anas Jamshed <anasjamshed1994 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have the file GSE162562_RAW. First I untar them
>> by untar("GSE162562_RAW.tar")
>> then I am running like:
>>  system("gunzip ~/Desktop/GSE162562_RAW/*.gz")
>>
>>
>> This is running fine in Linux but not in windows. What changes I
>> should make to run this command in windows as well
>>
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