[R] download.file()

[Stefan Grosse]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 06:32:18 pm Paul Evans wrote:
PE> Also, is there a method/package (in R) with which I can unpack a tar file
PE> programatically? 

I guesses that question when I saw your tar file. Not that you not only need 
to un-tar but also to un-zip then several other files in that tarball.

Counter-question: is it necessary that you do all that from within R? You 
could manually download, untar/unzip and then read the data that will be your 
next problem: the files have different names and some other information then 
just a table ... 

So unless you want to extract a lot of separate tables I think it is easier to 
do it manually.

Stefan

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Microeconomics
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