read_fst is from the package fst. The fileformat fst uses is a binary format designed to be fast readable. It is a column oriented format and compressed. So, to be able to work fst needs access to the file itself and wont accept a file connection as functions like read.table an variants accept.

Also, because it is a binary compressed format using a compression method that is fast to read, compressing also to zip seems to defeat the purpose of fst.

HTH,
Jan


On 09-06-2021 15:28, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 09/06/2021 9:12 a.m., Jeff Reichman wrote:
Duncan

Yea that will work. It appears to be related to setting my working dir, for what ever reason neither seem to work (1) knitr::opts_knit$set(root.dir ="~/My_Reference_Library/Regression") # from R Notebook or (2) setwd("C:/Users/reichmaj/Documents/My_Reference_Library/Regression") # from R chunk

So it appears I can either (as you suggested) use two steps or combine but I need to enter the full path. Why other file types don't seem to need the full path ....?????

You need to read the documentation for read_fst() to find what it needs.  If it doesn't explain this, then you should report the issue to its author.


myObject <- read_fst(unz("C:/Users/reichmaj/Documents/My_Reference_Library/Regression/Datasest.zip", filename = "myFile.fst"))

Thank you. I guess just one of those R things

No, it's a read_fst() thing.

Duncan Murdoch

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