On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, John James wrote: > If I open a tgz archive with gzfile and then parse it using readLines I miss > the initial line of each member of the archive - and also the name of the > file although the archive otherwise complete (but useless!).
You can use a gzfile connection to read the underlying .tar file, but that is not a text file and you will need to pick its structure apart yourself via readBin and readChar. > Is there any way within R to extract both the list of files in a tgz archive > and to extract any one of these files? > Clearly I can use zcat and tar on Linux, but I need this to work within the > R environment on Windows! You could use tar on Windows: it is in the R tools set. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
