Re: [R] Uncompressing data from read.socket

2010-09-08 Thread Matt Shotwell
Have a look at gzcon, for decompressing data as they arrive. From the help file: ‘gzcon’ provides a modified connection that wraps an existing connection, and decompresses reads or compresses writes through that connection. Standard ‘gzip’ headers are assumed. There is no indicati

Re: [R] Uncompressing data from read.socket

2010-09-07 Thread Dieter Menne
raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in wrote: > > Is it possible to uncompress gzipped data coming over a socket? > As far I remember a message by Brian Ripley (I could not find it, though), it's not possible directly. You have to save as a file and read from disk; see docs on "connection". Dieter -- Vie

[R] Uncompressing data from read.socket

2010-09-07 Thread raje...@cse.iitm.ac.in
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