[R] how to use large data set ?

[Greg Snow]

You did not say what analysis you want to do, but many common analyses
can be done as special cases of regression models and you can use the
biglm package to do regression models.

Here is an example that worked for me to get the mean and standard
deviation by day from an oracle database with over 23 million rows (I
had previously set up 'edw' as an odbc connection to the database under
widows, any of the database connections packages should work for you
though):

library(RODBC)
library(biglm)

con <- odbcConnect('edw',uid='glsnow',pwd=pass)

odbcQuery(con, "select ADMSN_WEEKDAY_CD, LOS_DYS from CM.CASEMIX_SMRY")

t1 <- Sys.time()

tmp <- sqlGetResults(con, max=100000)

names(tmp) <- c("Day","LoS")
tmp$Day <- factor(tmp$Day, levels=as.character(1:7))
tmp <- na.omit(tmp)
tmp <- subset(tmp, LoS > 0)

ff <- log(LoS) ~ Day

fit <- biglm(ff, tmp)

i <- nrow(tmp)
while( !is.null(nrow( tmp <- sqlGetResults(con, max=100000) ) ) ){
	names(tmp) <- c("Day","LoS")
	tmp$Day <- factor(tmp$Day, levels=as.character(1:7))
	tmp <- na.omit(tmp)
	tmp <- subset(tmp, LoS > 0)

	fit <- update(fit,tmp)
	
	i <- i + nrow(tmp)
	cat(format(i,big.mark=',')," rows processed\n")
}

summary(fit)

t2 <- Sys.time()

t2-t1
 
Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Yohan CHOUKROUN
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:42 AM
To: 'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
Subject: [R] how to use large data set ?

Hello R users,

 

Sorry for my English, i'm French.

 

I want to use a large dataset (3 millions of rows and 70 var) but I
don't know how to do because my computer crash quickly (P4 2.8Ghz, 1Go
).

I have also a bi Xeon with 2Go so I want to do computation on this
computer and show the results on mine. Both of them are on Windows XP...

 

To do shortly I have: 

 

1 server with a MySQL database

1computer

and I want to use them with a large dataset. 

 

I'm trying to use RDCOM to connect the database and installing (but it's
hard for me..) Rpad.

 

Is there another solutions ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

Yohan C.



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