[Rd] Compression of largish expression array files in the DAAGbio/inst/doc directory?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

As far as I can see read.maimages is built on top of R's own 
file-reading facilties, and they all read compressed (but not zipped) 
files as from R 2.10.0.

So simply use

gzip -9 coral55?.spot

and rename the files back to *.spot.

If you need more compression, use xz -9e.  (You can also do this in R: 
readLines() on the file, writeLines() using gzfile or xzfile.)

You will need to make the package 'Depends: R (>= 2.10)'.

On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, John Maindonald wrote:

> The inst/doc directory of the DAAG package has 6 files coral551.spot, ... that
> are around 0.85 MB each.  It would be useful to be able to zip then, but that
> as matters stand interferes with the use of the Sweave file that uses them to
> demonstrate input of expression array data that is in the "spot" format.  They
> do not automatically get unzipped when required.  I have checked that
> read.maimages (in limma) does not, unless I have missed something, have
> an option for reading zipped files.  Is there any way to get around this without
> substantially complicating the exposition in marray-notes.pdf (also in the
> inst/doc subdirectory)?
>
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