How to read a .rar file in R

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Hi,

Thanks in advance.

May I request you to assist me for the following please.

I am using R-3.0.1 on Windows.

Is there any R package or R function to read a .rar file (file with an extension rar)?
Use system() with however you unpack rar files on your OS.  .rar files 
are archives, not files you could usefully read into R (just like tar 
and zip archives).   At least, the commonest such files are, and those 
are already pretty uncommon.

There are several ways to unpack on Windows, at least 7-zip, WinZip, 
UnRAR (2x), WinRAR.
Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.

Regards,

Deb
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