[R] How to read zip file?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 04:02:14 CEST 2009


If you have the 7z zip utility and are on Windows
(or use 7z and grep on UNIX):

DF <- read.csv(pipe("7z x myfile.zip -so | findstr $"))


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suppose that I have a csv file that is compressed with zip, is there a
> way to read it in R without first decompressing it to a file.
>
> Regards,
> Peng
>
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