 Wongsang,

 Just to be clear  R.utils is different than "utils"

 As Henrik notes gunzip has been in R.utils ( see http://cran.r-project.org/)
for some time. It works
like a champ. R.utils is a great package.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Wonsang You <you@ifn-magdeburg.de> wrote:

> Dear Henrik,
>
> Thank you so much for your kind help. Unfortunately, I could not find out
> any function such as 'gunzip' in R.utils package. Instead, I could be
> successful by using the following command.
>
> system("gunzip filename")
>
> On the other hand, the function 'gzfile' supports the compression as gz
> format, but I still do not know how to decompress gz file by using the
> function 'gzfile'.
>
> Best Regards,
> Wonsang
>
>
> On 14 September 2010 15:23, Henrik Bengtsson <hb@stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > To uncompress an *.gz file into another file on disk, see also ?gunzip
> > in the R.utils package.
> >
> > /Henrik
> >
> > 2010/9/14 Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
> > > See ?gzfile
> > >
> > > Uwe Ligges
> > >
> > >
> > > On 14.09.2010 11:02, Wonsang You wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Dear Fellows,
> > >>
> > >> I would like to know how to uncompress a gz file at the R console. I
> > could
> > >> not find out any help from the R-help archive.
> > >> Thanks for your great help.
> > >>
> > >> Best Regards,
> > >> Wonsang You
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> -----
> > >> --
> > >> Wonsang You
> > >> Special Lab Non-Invasive Brain Imaging
> > >> Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
> > >> http://www.ifn-magdeburg.de
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