[R] how to read CSV file in R?

[Joris Meys]

That will be R 2.10.1 if I'm correct.

For reading in csv files, there's a function read.csv who does just that:
los <- read.csv("file.csv",header=T)

But that is just a detail. You have problems with your memory, but
that's not caused by the size of your dataframe. On my system, a
matrix with 100,000 rows and 75 columns takes only 28 Mb. So I guess
your workspace is cluttered with other stuff.

Check following help pages :
?Memory
?memory.size
?Memory.limits

it generally doesn't make a difference, but sometimes using gc() can
set some memory free again.

If none of this information helps, please provide us with a bit more
info regarding your system and the content of your current workspace.

Cheers
Joris

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:46 AM, dhanush <dhana.sa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I tried to read a CSV file in R. The file has about 100,000 records and 75
> columns. When used read.delim, I got this error. I am using R ver 10.1.
>
>> los<-read.delim("file.csv",header=T,sep=",")
> Warning message:
> In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  :
>  Reached total allocation of 1535Mb: see help(memory.size)
>
> Thanks
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