R help - Aug 2021 - Need help to unzip files in Windows

I have the file GSE162562_RAW. First I untar them
by untar("GSE162562_RAW.tar")
then I am running like:
 system("gunzip ~/Desktop/GSE162562_RAW/*.gz")


This is running fine in Linux but not in windows. What changes I
should make to run this command in windows as well

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Hello,


I don't think you need to use a system command directly, I think
'utils::untar' is all you need. I tried the same thing myself, something
like:


URL <- "https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-12.30.tar.gz"
FILE <- file.path(tempdir(), basename(URL))


utils::download.file(URL, FILE)
utils::untar(FILE, exdir = dirname(FILE))


and it makes a folder "Image-ExifTool-12.30". It seems to work
perfectly
fine in Windows 10 x64 build 19042. Can you send the specific file (or
provide a URL to the specific file) that isn't working for you?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:53 PM Anas Jamshed <anasjamshed1994 at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have the file GSE162562_RAW. First I untar them
> by untar("GSE162562_RAW.tar")
> then I am running like:
>  system("gunzip ~/Desktop/GSE162562_RAW/*.gz")
>
>
> This is running fine in Linux but not in windows. What changes I
> should make to run this command in windows as well
>
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There are some differences in R, between Windows and Linux.
You could try the 'shell' command instead.

#On Windows
?shell

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 4:53 AM Anas Jamshed <anasjamshed1994 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have the file GSE162562_RAW. First I untar them
> by untar("GSE162562_RAW.tar")
> then I am running like:
>  system("gunzip ~/Desktop/GSE162562_RAW/*.gz")
>
>
> This is running fine in Linux but not in windows. What changes I
> should make to run this command in windows as well
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.