An intuitive thought is, uncompress your csv file via bash utility *zcat*,
pipe it to STDIN and use* readline(STDIN) *in julia.
On Monday, January 5, 2015 7:51:18 AM UTC+8, ivo welch wrote:
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> dear julia users: beginner's question (apologies, more will be coming).
> it's probably obvious.
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> I am storing files in compressed csv form. I want to use the built-in
> julia readcsv() function. but I also need to pipe through a decompressor
> first. so, I tried a variety of forms, like
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> d= readcsv("/usr/bin/gzcat ./myfile.csv.gz |")
> d= readcsv("`/usr/bin/gzcat ./myfile.csv.gz`")
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> I can type the file with run(`/usr/bin/gzcat ./crsp90.csv.gz"), but
> wrapping a readcsv around it does not capture it. how does one do this?
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> regards,
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> /iaw
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