[R] Limit on number of Rows when reading R dataset

[Harsh]

Thank you Uwe and Prof. Ripley.

The problem was solved. The row in question indeed have garbage data,
which possibly was truncating the number of lines read. I apologise
for the oversight.

Thank you once again.

Regards
Harsh Singhal
Bangalore, India

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Take a look at your dataset at around that row.  Perhaps you have an
> unmatched quote?
>
> The limit on the number of rows of a data frame is far larger than 100,000
> (2^31-1, but you will run out of address space on a 32-bit platform before
> that - see ?"Memory-limits").
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Harsh wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to read a dataset with 100,000 rows and around 365 columns
>> into R, using read.table/read.csv.
>> In Windows XP, with R 32 bit, I am able to read only 15266 rows and
>> not more than that.
>> I tried the same in R running in Ubuntu and it does the same and reads
>> only 15266 rows.
>> Using the nrows paramter i can read rows less than 15266, but when i
>> used a value larger than 15266, it reads only 15266 nevertheless.
>>
>> Thank you for your patience and responses.
>>
>> Regards
>> Harsh Singhal
>> Bangalore, India
>
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