[Rd] Decompressing raw vectors in memory

[Hadley Wickham]

> I understand the desire not to have any dependency on additional
> packages, and I have no desire to engage in any "mine's better" exchanges.
> So write this just for the record.
> The gzunzip() function handle this.

Funnily enough I just discovered that RCurl already handles this: you
just need to set encoding = "gzip".  No extra dependencies, and yours
is better ;)

Hadley

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