Re: [R] memDecompress and zlib compressed base64 encoded string

2010-01-15 Thread Johannes Graumann
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> I have zlib compressed strings (example is attached) > > What is that file? Not gzip compression: > > gannet% file compressed.txt > compressed.txt: ASCII text, with very long lines > > since gzip uses a magic header that 'file' knows about. And even if > the header

Re: [R] memDecompress and zlib compressed base64 encoded string

2010-01-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, I have zlib compressed strings (example is attached) What is that file? Not gzip compression: gannet% file compressed.txt compressed.txt: ASCII text, with very long lines since gzip uses a magic header that 'file' knows about. And even if

[R] memDecompress and zlib compressed base64 encoded string

2010-01-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I have zlib compressed strings (example is attached) and would like to decompress them using memDecompress ... I try this: > connection <- file("compressed.txt","r") > compressed <- readLines(connection) > memDecompress(as.raw(compressed),type="g") Error in memDecompress(as.raw(compressed),