r - Creating zip file from folders

Question

I am wondering if it is possible to create a zip file from folders. I have one folder and in this folders there are four folders and in there, there are different kind of files. Now I want to zip those four folders recursively with their files.

I tried save() and gzip() but they don't do what I want.

Has someone a hint for me?

Answer 1

Scope out the tar command. While it's not zip, a compressed tar file is just as good.

tarfile <- 'newfile.tgz'
tar(tarfile,'/path/of/dir/to/tar/up',compression='gzip')