[R] Large data Problem

Roger D. Peng rdpeng at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 14:30:39 CET 2006


For a CSV file I would use 'read.csv()'.  I've compiled some notes on reading in 
large data frames into R at 
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/docs/R-large-tables.html.

-roger

Sumanta Basak wrote:
> Hi R-Experts,
> 
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> 
>             I'm having a problem with reading a large data file which is
> in .csv format and size is 120 MB (app.). I was trying to use RODBC
> package but I found RODBCconnectExcel function only. And can I convert
> this file to .dbf format?  How can I read this file? And also let me
> know if this was a file in .sas7bdat format, what should I do? Thanks in
> advance.
> 
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> Sumanta.
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