[R] R tools for large files

[Ko-Kang Kevin Wang]

Hi,

Have you looked at "R Data Import/Export"?

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:04:17 +1200
> From: Murray Jorgensen <maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz>
> Reply-To: maj at waikato.ac.nz
> To: R-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [R] R tools for large files
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has written some functions or code for handling 
> very large files in R. I am working with a data file that is 41 
> variables times who knows how many observations making up 27MB altogether.
> 
> The sort of thing that I am thinking of having R do is
> 
> - count the number of lines in a file
> 
> - form a data frame by selecting all cases whose line numbers are in a 
> supplied vector (which could be used to extract random subfiles of 
> particular sizes)
> 
> Does anyone know of a package that might be useful for this?
> 
> Murray
> 
> 

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Cheers,

Kevin

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