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I have a Dropbox folder with compressed JSON files in tar.gz, how can I extract the files, unzip them and read them in R? Could readtext from the readtext package help me, and how can I use the source argument of the function to access the folder?

I've tried creating tempfiles and download.file, and applying untar, but it returns an error code 1

r2evans
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    This is two(+) different questions. (1) **"How to access files in dropbox?"** For this, I found several good references in [`cran dropbox`](https://www.google.com/search?q=cran+dropbox) (in google). I don't use any of them, no endorsements or recommendations. (2) **"How to read json files in `.tar.gz` archives?"** I suggest taking cues from https://stackoverflow.com/a/7151322/3358272. (It seems likely you'll have to save the tarballed json file to a local (temp) file before reading it in, not certain if that's possible.) Possibly (3): **"How to read JSON?"** Use `jsonlite`. – r2evans Dec 02 '22 at 16:14
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