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

Basically, you need to type:

library(R.utils)
bunzip2("dataset.csv.bz2", "dataset.csv", remove = FALSE, skip = TRUE)

dataset <- read.csv("dataset.csv")

See documentation here: bunzip2 {R.utils}.