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

[John Maindonald]

Thanks.  That seems to work.

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On 09/04/2011, at 4:58 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> 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)?
>> 
>> John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
>> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
>> Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
>> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
>> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
>> http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
>> 
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