Quoting Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>:
In the way you describe it, no.
A) There is no such thing as a "zip folder". You are most likely
being fooled by the visual presentation of zip files in Windows
Explorer, which automatically simulates it as a folder, when it is
really extracting bits of data as needed to display it.
B) Because the data must be decompressed to be manipulated, there is
no performance or disk space advantage to creating a facility such
as you describe, though thee may be a convenience factor if you do
it a lot.
I will be doing a lot, that's why I wanted to automate it and since I
can use R I was wondering.
I'm using a software for displaying protein interactions as a network
of configurable nodes and edges. I have created my interaction maps
and attributes etc using R, then using the software for visualisation.
It allows me to see the network, colour-coded, and I can display all
sorts of interesting parameters of my choice. The software saves the
session in what seems to be nothing but a .zip file under a made up
extension name.
I can send these "all-encompassing" files to my collaborators and they
can see the networks I have created, and further filter and explore
using some simple menus the software provides.
The software has a small bug affecting the order of the annotation
columns it displays, and I tracked it down to one of the files it
saves within the .zip. I can alter the file so that the session opens
as I intend. It's a simple change to make. But I need to do it with
every file everytime I alter something and save it.
I do not have the ability to fix the bug itself, so until then I
figured it'd be good to have a little script that I can run to do that
for me.
C) There is a function zip.file.extract() in R for extraction, but I
don't see a zip compression function, so you will need to use
external programs, perhaps executed using the "system" function, to
generate updated zip files.
thank you, I will check that.
Jose
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