Stefan,
Correct. However I have a large number of tar files to download (with several
zip files in each) - so doing it manually is going to be somewhat difficult.
I may have to package this code for other users and if possible, would only
like to use R for these operations.
thanks for the reply!
----- Original Message ----
From: Stefan Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: r-help@r-project.org; Paul Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:57:46 PM
Subject: Re: [R] download.file()
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
University of Erfurt
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