Reference

Read and write archives using R connections. These functions deal with archive formats such as zip, 7zip, rar and tar and return connection objects which can be used by many R input / output functions.
archive()	Construct a new archive
archive_read()	Create a readable connection to a file in an archive.
archive_write()	Create a writable connection to a file in an archive.
Extract files from archives and write existing files to archives. These functions create archives from a set of existing files or extract some or all files from an archive to disk.
archive_extract()	Extract contents of an archive to a directory
archive_write_dir() archive_write_files()	Add files to a new archive
Read and Write files using R connections. These functions write or read a file filtered by one or more compression algorithms or encoding filters supported by libarchive, such as gzip, bzip2 and xz and return an R connection to that file.
file_read() file_write()	Construct a connections for (possibly compressed) files.