open.maybe.gzip: Open a connection that transparently handles gzip...

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Open a connection that transparently handles gzip compression.

Description

Open a connection that transparently handles gzip compression.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'maybe.gzip'
open(filepath, gzipped, mode = "rb")

Arguments

filepath	character string, path to the file.
gzipped	logical, whether the file is gzip-compressed (see is.gzip.file).
mode	character string, 'r' for text or 'rb' for binary.

Value

a connection, call close() on it when done.

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