Extract bz2 file in R

Question

I have bunch of .csv.bz2 files, which i have to download, extract, and read in R. I downloaded the file and want to extract it to current working directory, the

Answer 1

You can make use of the super fast fread which has built-in support for bz2-compressed files

require(data.table)
fread("file.csv.bz2")