UnZip {memisc} | R Documentation |
Extract Files from Zip Files
Description
Unzip
extracts a file from a zip archive
and puts them into a directory specified by
the user or into the temporary directory of the
current session.
Usage
UnZip(zipfile,item,
dir=tempdir(),package=NULL)
Arguments
zipfile |
a character string, the path to the zip file. |
item |
a character string, full path (from the root
of the zip file) to the file to extract. |
dir |
path to the directory were to place the extracted file. |
package |
optional package name, if given, the
path to the zipfile starts in the packages' root directory. |
Examples
# Extract American National Election Study of 1948
# It is item "NES1948.POR" in zip file "anes/NES1948.ZIP"
# where this path is relative to the packages'
# root directory.
nes1948.por <- UnZip("anes/NES1948.ZIP","NES1948.POR",
package="memisc")
nes1948.por
[Package
memisc version 0.95-17
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