Re: [R] How to read from a file within a gzipped file

Hello, You can create a connection and read from it. desc <- "X:/Mkt Science/Projects/ tv/202109.ext/tsa.20210901.xml.zip" fname <- "20210901.socioDemos.a.xml" zz <- unz(desc, fname) Now read from zz. Example: xml <- XML::xmlParse(zz) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Às 17:24 de 11/10/21,

Re: [R] How to read from a file within a gzipped file

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:24:01 + "Conklin, Mike (GfK) via R-help" wrote: > Is there a way to return a connection to a single file within a > zipped file using gzfile or some other method. Sure! Use unz() instead of gzfile(). -- Best regards, Ivan

[R] How to read from a file within a gzipped file

Hi have a large number of zipped files, each containing 3 xml files that I want to read. I would like to read one of the xml files without having to decompress each zip file first. If I run gzfile(path2zipped file) I get A connection with description "X:/Mkt Science/Projects/