[R] How to load a big txt file

[Chung-hong Chan]

Easy solution will be split your big txt files by text editor.

e.g. 5000 rows each.

and then combine the dataframes together into one.



On 6/7/07, ssls sddd <ssls.sddd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I need to read a big txt file (around 130Mb; 23800 rows and 49 columns)
> for downstream clustering analysis.
>
> I first used "Tumor <- read.table("Tumor.txt",header = TRUE,sep = "\t")"
> but it took a long time and failed. However, it had no problem if I just put
> data of 3 columns.
>
> Is there any way which can load this big file?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Sincerely,
>      Alex
>
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