Multi-Format Archive and Compression Support
Extract contents of an archive to a directory
Create a readable connection to a file in an archive.
Add files to a new archive
Create a writable connection to a file in an archive.
Construct a new archive
Construct a connections for (possibly compressed) files.
Bindings to 'libarchive' <http://www.libarchive.org> the Multi-format archive and compression library. Offers R connections and direct extraction for many archive formats including 'tar', 'ZIP', '7-zip', 'RAR', 'CAB' and compression formats including 'gzip', 'bzip2', 'compress', 'lzma' and 'xz'.
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