From jefferis at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk  Thu Nov 28 15:37:19 2013
From: jefferis at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Dr Gregory Jefferis)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:37:19 +0000
Subject: [Rd] inflate zlib compressed data using base R or CRAN package?
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Dear Murray,

On 28 Nov 2013, at 1:30, Murray Stokely wrote:

> I think none of these examples describe a zlib compressed data block 
> inside
> a binary file that the OP asked about, as all of your examples are 
> e.g.
> prepending gzip or zip headers.
>
> Greg, is memDecompress what you are looking for?

Yes, so long as one explicitly specifies type='gzip' - even though it 
isn't! I'm not sure I would have guessed it from the help. Thank you!

Best,

Greg.

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[Rd] inflate zlib compressed data using base R or CRAN package?
Dr Gregory Jefferis