unzip("fasta.gz") Warning message: In unzip("fasta.gz") : error 1 in extracting from zip file

I am trying to unzip a zip file but it is not working what am I doing wrong? ```

This forum is for addressing technical issues pertaining to Bioconductor packages. Your question would be more suited to a general forum.

Irrespective, I think that you need R.utils::gunzip(), not utils::unzip().

Package functions like data.table's data.table::fread() --and even, these days, read.table()-- can automatically detect if a file is compressed and uncompress this for you while inporting the file contents into your R session.

If you still have issues, please paste here the output of sessionInfo()

The other methodological question pertains to why you want to read an assumed FASTA file into your R session.

Kevin

This isn't a Bioconductor question, so it would be more appropriate to ask this on a general R help platform.

To answer the question, a .zip file is not the same as a .gz file. That latter is often called a "gzip" file. You can try the gunzip() function in R to read or decompress the file.