[R] Reading large files

Matthew Dowle mdowle at mdowle.plus.com
Fri Feb 5 20:24:09 CET 2010


I can't help you further than whats already been posted to you. Maybe 
someone else can.
Best of luck.

"Satish Vadlamani" <SATISH.VADLAMANI at fritolay.com> wrote in message 
news:1265397089104-1470667.post at n4.nabble.com...
>
> Matthew:
> If it is going to help, here is the explanation. I have an end state in
> mind. It is given below under "End State" header. In order to get there, I
> need to start somewhere right? I started with a 850 MB file and could not
> load in what I think is reasonable time (I waited for an hour).
>
> There are references to 64 bit. How will that help? It is a 4GB RAM 
> machine
> and there is no paging activity when loading the 850 MB file.
>
> I have seen other threads on the same types of questions. I did not see 
> any
> clear cut answers or errors that I could have been making in the process. 
> If
> I am missing something, please let me know. Thanks.
> Satish
>
>
> End State
>> Satish wrote: "at one time I will need to load say 15GB into R"
>
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