Gunzip a file — gunzip • GEOquery

# Gunzip a file

gunzip a file

    gunzip(filename, destname = gsub("[.]gz$", "", filename), overwrite = FALSE, remove = TRUE, BFR.SIZE = 1e+07)

## Arguments

filename
  The filename to be unzipped
destname
  The destination file
overwrite
  Boolean indicating whether or not to overwrite a destfile of the same name
remove
  Boolean indicating whether or not to remove the original file after completion
BFR.SIZE
  The size of the read buffer....

## Details

This function was stripped out of R.utils due to breaking some stuff on the bioconductor build machine.

## Value

Invisibly, the number of bytes read.

## See also

`gzfile`

## Author

Original author: Henrik Bengtsson