If it's a text file, any of the usual functions, such as read.table(), scan(), etc.
If it's a binary file, try readBin() It's up to you to find out what kind of a file it is, and how the data is structured within the file. (hint: on a unix-alike system, the 'file' command will tell you something useful. or just try opening it with a text editor) -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 3/17/14 12:06 PM, "eliza botto" <eliza_bo...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Dear R-Family, >I have just downloaded a massive data file from internet >(AphroJP_62STN_V1005.1900.gz). Apparently, the file is compressed with >.gz. When I uncompressed >it, the file was saved in the name (AphroJP_62STN_V1005.1900) of unknown >format. How can I open it in R? >thankyou very much indeed in advance, >Eliza > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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.
