[R] Manage huge database

[José E. Lozano]

> What are you going to do with the data once you have read it in?  Are
> all the data items numeric?  If they are numeric, you would need at
> least 8GB to hold one copy and probably a machine with 32GB if you
> wanted to do any manipulation on the data.

Well, I will use only sets of variables to analyze, I cant manage the full
500000 variables at a time, of course. So each time I make an analysis I
will extract the information I need, so that's why I wanted an easy way to
extract parts of the file.

Best regards,
Jose Lozano