Hi Henrik, That is exactly what I was looking for. I worked great. Many thanks.
By the way it doesn't seem to be able to do batch mode. I guess I will have to iterate through. But thats ok. John On 1/31/12, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > I may be wrong, but I don't think unz() handles bz2 files - only zip files. > > See bunzip2() of the R.utils package (which utilizes bzfile connections). > > /Henrik > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:34 PM, ql16717 <ql16...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have downloaded a bunch of bz2 files. I wonder if R will be able to >> unzip them in a batch mode or even one at a time? >> >> I was looking at the unz function. But it didn't work well. Say I have >> a bz2 file in H:/Temp/65502805_532.pair.bz2. Anyone has any >> suggestion? >> >> thanks >> John >> >>> setwd("H:\\Temp\\") >>> getwd() >> [1] "H:/Temp" >>> fn<-list.files(pattern="bz2", full.names=TRUE) >>> fn >> [1] "./65502805_532.pair.bz2" >>> unz(description=fn, filename="65502805_532.pair", open="r") >> Error in unz(description = fn, filename = "65502805_532.pair", open = "r") >> : >> cannot open the connection >> In addition: Warning message: >> In unz(description = fn, filename = "65502805_532.pair", open = "r") : >> cannot open zip file './65502805_532.pair.bz2' >> >>> sessionInfo() >> R version 2.14.0 (2011-10-31) >> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United >> States.1252 >> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] pdInfoBuilder_1.18.0 oligo_1.18.1 oligoClasses_1.16.0 >> affxparser_1.26.2 RSQLite_0.10.0 >> [6] DBI_0.2-5 Biobase_2.12.1 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] affyio_1.22.0 Biostrings_2.22.0 bit_1.1-8 >> ff_2.2-4 IRanges_1.12.1 >> [6] preprocessCore_1.16.0 splines_2.14.0 tools_2.14.0 >> zlibbioc_1.0.0 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.