> I understand the desire not to have any dependency on additional > packages, and I have no desire to engage in any "mine's better" exchanges. > So write this just for the record. > The gzunzip() function handle this.
Funnily enough I just discovered that RCurl already handles this: you just need to set encoding = "gzip". No extra dependencies, and yours is better ;) Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel