[R] Reading bzip2 and tar files in R

[Roger D. Peng]

bzip2-ped files can be read via the bzfile() connection function.  I don't think 
there's a way to read from tar files though.

-roger

DrakeGis wrote:
> Is there any way to read and decompress inside R tar and bzip2 files ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>   D
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