[R] cbind alternate

[jim holtman]

What is it you want to do with the data after you save it?  Are you
just going to read it back into R?  If so, consider using save/load.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Mary Kindall <mary.kindall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two one dimensional list of elements and want to perform cbind and
> then write into a file. The number of entries are more than a million in
> both lists. R is taking a lot of time performing this operation.
>
> Is there any alternate way to perform cbind?
>
> x = table1[1:1000000,1]
> y = table2[1:1000000,5]
>
> z = cbind(x,y)   //hanging the machine
>
> write.table(z,'out.txt)
>
>
>
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-- 
Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.