readLines (as well as other I/O routines) handles gzip files transparently, you
should be able to simply use
readLines('/home/file.gz’)
Benno
On 10 Feb 2015, at 22:45 , Alexandra Catena <amc5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone help me with unzipping a .gz file. I used:
>
> readLines(gzfile('/home/file.gz'))
>
>
> I also found that I could use gunzip, but after trying to install it, it
> says:
>
> "package ‘gunzip’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alexandra
>
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