As far as I can see read.maimages is built on top of R's own
file-reading facilties, and they all read compressed (but not zipped)
files as from R 2.10.0.
So simply use
gzip -9 coral55?.spot
and rename the files back to *.spot.
If you need more compression, use xz -9e. (You can also do this in R:
readLines() on the file, writeLines() using gzfile or xzfile.)
You will need to make the package 'Depends: R (>= 2.10)'.
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, John Maindonald wrote:
The inst/doc directory of the DAAG package has 6 files coral551.spot, ... that
are around 0.85 MB each. It would be useful to be able to zip then, but that
as matters stand interferes with the use of the Sweave file that uses them to
demonstrate input of expression array data that is in the "spot" format. They
do not automatically get unzipped when required. I have checked that
read.maimages (in limma) does not, unless I have missed something, have
an option for reading zipped files. Is there any way to get around this without
substantially complicating the exposition in marray-notes.pdf (also in the
inst/doc subdirectory)?
John Maindonald email: john.maindon...@anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473 fax : +61 2(6125)5549
Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm
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