I would just use 7zip :)

http://www.7-zip.org/

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I would propose you a different approach to get the data.

Use the GEOquery package from bioconductor to download the data directly from R:

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite("GEOquery")
library("GEOquery")
GSE63706 = getGEO("GSE63706")

Check the GEOquery vignette for more information on how to access the data. Check also the destdir option of getGEO for saving the downloaded file to your preferred folder.

By the way, regarding your original question: you usually don't need to uncompress files because R is usually faster at reading compressed files than uncompressed (depending on your disk read speed and ram access time).

Hello,

Actually, this problem presented above by Fereshteh,it is part of a tutorial to perform microarray data analyses using a dataset from GEO- NCBI db. Analysing Microarray Data In Bioconductor

I have similar problem and been trying to resolve it. I first tried using getGeo to download datasets in GSE matrix format, which is easy to analyse further in R but the challenge is that i have encountered incomplete downloads interuppting my pipeline, so I decided to use raw data format getGEOsuppFiles().

Has anyone resolved this problem? can anyone help please? thanks in advance

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