[R] R File IO Slow?

[Roger D. Peng]

A 27MB .RData file is relatively big, in may experience.  What do you think is 
slow?  Maybe it's your computer that is slow?

-roger

ramzi abboud wrote:
> Is R file IO slow in general or am I missing
> something?  It takes me 5 minutes to do a load(MYFILE)
> where MYFILE is a 27 MB Rdata file.  Is there any way
> to speed this up?  
> 
> The one idea I have is having R call a C or Perl
> routine, reading the file in that language, converting
> the data in to R objects, then sending them back into
> R.  This is more work that I want to do, however, in
> loading Rdata files.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> Ramzi Aboud
> University of Rochester
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