R/extract.zip.r

In ArrayExpress: Access the ArrayExpress Microarray Database at EBI and build Bioconductor data structures: ExpressionSet, AffyBatch, NChannelSet

extract.zip = function (file, extractpath = dirname(file)[1]) {
  topic = basename(file)
  path = dirname(file)
  if (file.exists(file.path(path, topic))){
	  lapply(1:length(file), function(i) unzip(zipfile = file.path(path[i], topic[i]), exdir = extractpath))
	  rc = lapply(1:length(file), function(i) unzip(zipfile = file.path(path[i], topic[i]), list = TRUE, exdir = extractpath))
	  
	  if(length(rc) > 1)
      	rc = do.call(c, sapply(1:length(file), function(i) as.character(rc[[i]][,1])))
	  else rc = as.character(rc[[1]][,1])    
	  
	  if(inherits(rc,"try-error"))
      	stop("Cannot extract the files the downloaded archive. Please install unzip on your machine")   
  }else
	  stop(sprintf("%s does not exist",file.path(path, topic)))  
  return(rc)
}