Hi Sorry, I am clearly missing something here.
I want to read this file directly: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/mirbase/targets/v5/arch.v5.txt.gallus_gallus. zip I tried using read.table(gzfile("ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/mirbase/targets/v5/arch.v5 .txt.gallus_gallus.zip")) But I got an error: Error in open.connection(file, "r") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In open.connection(file, "r") : cannot open compressed file 'ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/mirbase/targets/v5/arch.v5.txt.gallus_gallus .zip', probable reason 'No such file or directory' With all the different ways of opening connections (url(), unz(), gzfile(), gzcon() etc) I am just getting a bit lost. The above zip archive contains a single tab-delimited file, but one which I need to skip the first 5 lines. Any help appreciated! Thanks Mick ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
