Question

I have a very large zip file and i am trying to read it into R without unzipping it like so:

temp <- tempfile("Sales", fileext=c("zip"))
data <- read.table(unz(temp, "Sales.dat"), nrows=10, header=T, quote="\"", sep=",")

Error in open.connection(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In open.connection(file, "rt") :
  cannot open zip file 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpyAM9jH\Sales13041760345azip'

Answer 1

If your zip file is called Sales.zip and contains only a file called Sales.dat, I think you can simply do the following (assuming the file is in your working directory):

data <- read.table(unz("Sales.zip", "Sales.dat"), nrows=10, header=T, quote="\"", sep=",")