R Reading in a zip data file without unzipping it

Question

I have a very large zip file and i am trying to read it into R without unzipping it like so:

temp <- tempfile(\"Sales\", fileext=c(\"zip\"))
data <- re         


        

Answer 1

If you have zcat installed on your system (which is the case for linux, macos, and cygwin) you could also use:

zipfile<-"test.zip"
myData <- read.delim(pipe(paste("zcat", zipfile)))

This solution also has the advantage that no temporary files are created.