Not clear if you need to: 1. decompress /home/file.gz, or 2. read the content of /home/file.gz into R.
For (1) you can use `gunzip` at the command line, or gunzip("/home/file.gz") of the R.utils package. For (2), as already mentioned, R does a good job of reading gzip'ed files "as is". It may even be that you don't have to use gzfile(). DEMO: # Create gzip'ed file > cat(file="foo.txt", "Hello world!\n") > R.utils::gzip("foo.txt") # Read directly from it > readLines("foo.txt.gz") [1] "Hello world!" # Decompress it > R.utils::gunzip("foo.txt.gz") > readLines("foo.txt") [1] "Hello world!" /Henrik On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 1:45 PM, 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.