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I would greatly appreciate some example of correct usage of function unz. I have to download and uncompress the following web compressef file: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/mirbase/targets/v5/arch.v5.txt.homo_sapiens.zip I tried the following command that does not work: Targets.rec <- readLines(zz <- unz("ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/mirbase/targets/v5/arch.v5.txt.homo_sapiens.zip"))

I get unexpected behavior from "readLines()" and "scan()" depending on how the file is opened with "gzfile" or "unz". More specifically: > file <- gzfile("file.gz") > readLines(file,1) [1] "a\tb\tc" > readLines(file,1) [1] "a\tb\tc" > close(file) It seems that the stream is rewound between calls to readLines.

Dear List, Does somebody know how to get the filename lists in the ziped when "gzfile" or "unz" command is used ? Thanks for your help. Shawn Lee -- The information contained in this communication and any atta...{{dropped}}

I received several answer to my querry re reading zipped files, R.Gentleman, Liaw Andy, BD Ripley,J Holtman, A.Matt, and others, sorry if I missed your names. a- use pipe to run external unzip to a file and read from there b- use gzfile() to open directly a gzipped file c- use zip.file.extract() solution b works like a charm, unfortunately it open gzipped files and not zipped files, would it be

Hi all, I am trying to download, decompress and read a csv file. My code: myurl <- "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE24729/GSE24729_MitoNuclear_suppl_male_stats.csv.gz" # myfile <- "GSE24729_MitoNuclear_suppl_male_stats.csv.gz" # download.file(myurl, destfile=myfile, mode="w") # mycon <- gzcon(gzfile(myfile,

Hello I am trying to read a large number of WinZip files from inside R (v 1.7.1, options()$unzip = internal). I have unsuccessfully tried to unpack the files and write to an external directory so that I could read the text files using zip.unpack. Reading some of the archives suggests that this is for .ZIP format files only. I have also unsuccessfully tried to use gzfile to open a connection and

Hola: Para el desarrollo del nuevo PluginR de Tiki (para poder ejecutar scripts de R desde Tiki: en páginas Wiki, hojas de cálculo web, etc, http://dev.tiki.org/PluginR ), por ahora estamos usando la lista de funciones que se usaban en el proyecto r-php, y que fueran heredadas por la extensión R de MediaWiki. Como r-php se hizo hace algunos años (2006), me pregunto si alguien sabe si hay

Hello, I am trying to access several netCDF files that are also zipped (via gzip I guess) (and stored in a directory that I only have reading permit) I tried to unzip them using gzfile, gzcon, etc, and then open them with open.ncdf (from ncdf package). Everything was unsuccesful. I had no problem using the ncdf package with "normal" netCDF files I would really appreciate any

Hello, If repeated calls are made to save() using the same pre-opened gzfile connection to a file, and then the connection is closed, the objects saved by the second and subsequent calls are not correctly restored by repeated calls to load() with a new gzfile connection to the same file. What follows are a session exposing the bugs, analysis (see ANALYSIS), patches (see PATCHES), and a session

Hi all, I used `gzfile` and `gzcon` to read a compressed file but I found that `gzcon` gave me a different result than `gzfile`. It seems like the `gzcon` does not handle the data correctly. I have posted an example below. In the example, a portion of a compressed file is downloaded from Google Cloud as a raw vector, and the data is saved into a temp file. If I use ` gzfile` to read the file, it

Dear all, I am trying to install a package called "GFCURE" from a local zip file. This package fits a cure survival model and has been downloaded from: http://post.queensu.ca/~pengp/software.html The problem is that when I try to install this package from a local zip file using R, I've got the following error message: Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot

Full_Name: Vadim Ogranovich Version: Version 1.6.0 (2002-10-01) OS: Red Hat 7.1 Submission from: (NULL) (209.99.241.1) The following sequence of commands crashes my R session. The first weirdness happens after the second command that appears not to change the "foo.gz" file, no error generated. > con <- gzfile("foo.gz", open="w"); cat("goo\n",

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Tue, 1 May 2018 16:14:43 +0200 writes: >>>>> G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> >>>>> on Tue, 1 May 2018 12:05:32 +0000 writes: >> This is a not too old R-devel on Linux, it already fails >> in R 3.4.4, and on macOS as well.

Dear all, In R-devel (2011-09-23 r57050), I'm running into a serious problem with seek()ing on connections opened with gzfile(). A warning is generated and the file position does not seek to the requested location. It doesn't seem to occur all the time - I tried to create a small example file to illustrate it, but the problem didn't occur. However, it can be seen with a file I use for

Hi R friends, I've been attempting to create plots with multiple alpha values using Cairo to save them on a windows (32b XP) platform as it doesn't support more than 3 alpha values. This worked well until I wanted a postscript file (unsupported) and as a attempted work around I installed RGtk2. So far so good, however now when I try to use a >CairoPDF("alpha.pdf", 6, 6,

Dear All, I'd like to be able to have R store (in a list component) a compressed data set, and then write it out uncompressed. gzcon and gzfile work in exactly the opposite direction. What would be a good way to handle this? Details: ---------- We have a package that uses C; part of the C output is a large sparse matrix. This is never manipulated directly by R, but always by the C code.

Hi, I downloaded a package with .gz extension, which presumably works for Unix, when I installed it directly on windows, it has the error msg: Error in gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning messages: 1: In unzip(zipname, exdir = dest) : error 1 in extracting from zip file 2: In gzfile(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file

Is it just me, or did a corrupt PACKAGES.gz file get installed in the bin/windows/contrib/3.2 directory of CRAN mirrors recently? gzfile() complains about it and Cygwin's gzip cannot decompress it. I tried the following repos <- "https://cran.rstudio.com" v <- "3.2" pkgs.gz <- paste(sep="/", repos, "bin/windows/contrib", v,

Hi I have been trawling the web, FAQs, and R manuals for help on the following issue, but have failed and was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem: After having installed R 2.6.2 for Windows (binary), I tried to install various packages. Every time I try loading a package (any package) via the built-in menu, I run into the following error message. >

Hi, I'm running into more issues when reading data from a gzfile connection. If I read the data sequentially with successive calls to readBin(), the data I get looks ok. But if I call seek() between the successive calls to readBin(), I get corrupted data. Here is a (hopefully) reproducible example. See my sessionInfo() at the end (I'm not on Windows, where, according to the man page,