Importing data from zip files

[Emma Perez]

Hi there!
I know in R it is possible to load data directly from zip files, unzipping the file and reading the csv in the same code line. Is this also possible in Stata?
I guess you can unzip the file with unzipfile for example and then load the csv with import delimited, but I wonder if it is possible to do the whole process in just one step rather than in two.

Thank you very much!

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

It's a two step process like you've already guessed. One could make a custom program that combined the two steps into a single command but that's almost certainly more work than it's worth unless you have to do this process a ton.

[Emma Perez]

I see! Thank you very much for the clarification!