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

To un-gz a file in R you can do

library(R.utils)
gunzip("file.gz", remove=FALSE)

or

gunzip("file.gz")

But then you get the default (remove=TRUE) behavior in which the input file is removed after that the output file is fully created and closed.