The odfWeave package would really benefit from having an R zip function to zip a directory to an archive with an .odt extension. The need for an external zip/uniz utilities has been an issue for many non-technical windows users.
Max On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Duncan Temple Lang <dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > > Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >> On 04.02.2010 03:31, mkna005 mkna005 wrote: >>> Hello all! >>> I was wondering if it is possible to create a zip archive within R and >>> add files to it? >> >> No. > > Well, the Rcompression package on the Omegahat package does have some > facilities for it. > It doesn't do it in memory, but does handle issues of moving disparate files > to > a common temporary directory and getting things in order generally to create > the zip > file. But it currently uses the external zip executable to create the archive. > > I probably will get around to implementing a version in memory as it has been > an issue that has nagged me for a while. And we have the code for it. > > > > >> >> >>> I know it is possible to unzip files but is it >>> possible the other way round? >> >> No. >> >> >> For (compressed) archives see ?tar >> For other compression formats of single files see ?file >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Christoph >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Max ______________________________________________ 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.
