FYI: I had some problems with GPR files, read.table, and an gzfile when I tried this out two years ago in aroma. I cannot remember what the exact problem was (some kind of read.table error), but I ended up gunzipping to temporary file in my parser/reader. My code is now doing if (regexpr("[.]gz$", filename) != -1) { tmpname <- tempfile(); n <- gunzip(filename, tmpname); filename <- tmpname; on.exit(file.remove(tmpname)); } gunzip() is simply a function that reads a gzfile and writes to a regular file connection. Less efficient for now, but at least you can keep you files gzipped. The read.table problem might been fixed now, I haven't tried. /Henrik Rafael A. Irizarry wrote: > yes, but then i need to hack the existing parsers. maybe instead of just > me doing it, the maintainer(s) can do it for everybody? see Sean's email > for what he suggests. > > -r > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Robert Gentleman wrote: > > >>Hi, >> Does gzfile not do what you want? >> >> > apropos("gz") >>[1] "gzcon" "gzfile" >> >>Robert >> >>Rafael A. Irizarry wrote: >> >>>hi! any recs on how to deal with gzipped gpr files? if possible id like to >>>read them into bioc without unzipping them first. >>>-r >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Bioconductor mailing list >>>Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > >