Decompress gz file using R

Question

I have used ?unzip in the past to get at contents of a zipped file using R. This time around, I am having a hard time extracting the files from a .gz file whic

Answer 1

If you really want to uncompress the file, just use the untar function which does support gzip. E.g.:

untar('chadwick-0.5.3.tar.gz')