[BioC] Read big file!

[Vincent Carey]

it is also possible to use a buffered reading/filtering approach.
look carefully at scan(), readLines()
and friends.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sean Davis<seandavi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Mohamed
> Lajnef<Mohamed.lajnef at inserm.fr> wrote:
>> Dear R-Users
>>
>> i would like to read a big file (1000 lines and 1200000 columns) with R? but
>> this is impossible ! Does someone have a magic solution to my problem?
>>
>> Otherwise I try a function to read by few columns this large file ( no by
>> lines!)?
>
> This is better posted to the R-help list, but have you tried playing
> with colClasses from read.table()?
>
> Sean
>
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