zip.file.extract

On 3/19/2009 2:30 PM, Li, Xuejun wrote:

Hello everyone,

 

Can anyone give me some hint/suggestion for unzipping a file in R?  The
help file for "zip.file.extract" function seems to be difficult to
understand. 
 

For example, the name of my zip file is "refGene.txt.gz", which is
located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Desktop\test1".  I would like to
unzip this file to the same directory.

That seems fairly unlikely to be a zip file; it looks like a gzip
file, based on the extension.

zip.file.extract is for zip archives.  The closest equivalent in the
gzip world is a .tar.gz file.

I don't know if there is a built-in gunzip function, but you can call
a system function using system().