[R] regarding large csv file import [Broadcast]

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Fri Oct 27 20:37:36 CEST 2006


TFM ("R Data Import/Export" manual in this case) can be a better place
to look than the archive.     Try specifying colClasses in read.csv()
might help.

Andy

From: gyadav at ccilindia.co.in
> 
> hi All, 
> 
> i have a .csv of size 272 MB and a RAM of 512MB and working 
> on windows XP. 
> I am not able to import the csv file.
> R hangs means it stops responding even SciViews hangs.
> i am using read.csv(FILENAME,sep=",",header=TRUE). Is there 
> any way to import it.
> i have tried archives already but i was not able to sense much.
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
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