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

The gzfile function along with read_csv and read.table can read compressed files.

library(readr)
df = read_csv(gzfile("file.csv.gz"))

library(data.table)
df = read.table(gzfile("file.csv.gz"))

read_csv from the readr package can read compressed files even without using gzfile function.

library(readr)  
df = read_csv("file.csv.gz")

read_csv is recommended because it is faster than read.table